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My employer runs Sendmail (the commercial version, and no, I don't know why). Our primary mail gateway runs on Solaris 8, and our failover runs on Mandrake 8.2. Recently, my many bosses began moaning about SPAM, so I convinced them to let us try SpamAssassin. I configured the failover and had everything going within a few hours or so. We set up a test group, and using virtusertable, I was able to route the test group from the primary over to the failover, where their email was processed through SpamAssassin. Things went so well that the bosses have now decided to implement SpamAssassin throughout the organization. They are SO proud of themselves. So, off to the primary server I go. I installed SpamAssassin, copied the configuration files over, set up a startup script, and then fired it up. spamd wouldn't start. It died, bitching about Sys::Syslog not being installed. Okay, whatever. I head over to CPAN and search for Sys::Syslog. What the fuck? It's ONLY available in 5.8+ now? If I want it, I HAVE to upgrade Perl? Why the hell can't I just download an older package? Dammit. The Solaris box functions only as our primary email gateway. It's a fairly minimal installation, with almost no development libraries, headers, etc. installed on it. So, compiling Perl (which I prefer to do) is out of the question. Which means ... I have to visit SunFreeware.com, one of the worst fucking sites I've ever had the misfortune to visit. It takes about 10 minutes for the first page to load. Then I have to click Solaris 8, which then takes another 5 minutes or so. Then I click on the package I want ... and this is where SunFreeware really starts to suck nuts. Instead of loading a description page for the package I'm wanting, it loads ONE HUGE MOTHERFUCKING page containing descriptions of EVERY Solaris 8 package available. A little over an hour later, I have Perl-5.8.0 downloaded. I install Perl and check that Sys::Syslog is indeed now available. Yes! I fire-up spampd (a proxy daemon which makes it easier to integrate Sendmail and SpamAssassin), only to see the following: # /etc/init.d/spampd start -n Starting spampd: unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/Server.pm line 204 Syslog err [] at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/Server.pm line 204. Huh? A little research leads me to http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@xxxx.xxx/msg94052.html, which indicates that this problem has been around for OVER 2 FUCKING YEARS AND STILL HASN'T BEEN FIXED. Basically, almost every *nix recognizes the _PATH_LOG() as defined in sys/syslog.h. But not Solaris ... oh no, baby. No fucking way. It's gotta be different ... it's gotta be unique. It requires LOG_SYSLOG(). And apparently, the only way I can fix this is to recompile a bunch of shit - something I CANNOT FUCKING DO ON THIS MACHINE. Not unless I want to install a ton of development packages, and spend the rest of the week chasing down missing libraries, etc. But the REAL question is this: Why the FUCK didn't the people who packaged Perl for Solaris fix this shit? Christ Almighty ... Sys::Syslog is now standard in Perl, but it DOESN'T FUCKING WORK ON SOLARIS because the packagers WON'T ADDRESS THE GODDAMNED BUG! A bug that has been around SINCE 2001! Fuck. All I want to do is filter some SPAM .... *sigh* -- steve
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