qmail-scanner on Fedora 1 (has anyone gotten it working?)

[pctech at mybellybutton.com]

--- Christophe Le Guern <christophe at le-guern.net>
wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:37:08 -0500
> "Gregg Smith" <gsmith at chroma.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Christophe Le Guern
> > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:32 PM
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: qmail-scanner on Fedora 1 (has anyone
> gotten it working?)
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:00:01 -0800
> > "kelly at readymode.com" <kelly at readymode.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have tried installing it even after updating
> > perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.i386.rpm
> > >
> > > but it still says the it can't use
> /var/suidperl.
> > >
> > > So has anyone been able to get qmail-scanner
> working on Fedora 1 ?
> > > If so can you post how you were able to do it.
> > 
> > >hi,
> > >
> > >It seems that perl-suidperl is in Fedora Core
> > (perl-suidperl-5.8.1-92.i386.rpm).
> > >The package contains:
> > >- /usr/bin/sperl5.8.1
> > >- /usr/bin/suidperl
> > 
> > >So you can do (as root):
> > ># ln -s /usr/bin/suidperl /var/suidperl
> > 
> > >Christophe
> > 
> > 
> > Suidperl is deprecated, see the Perl web site. 
> Better off using the C
> > wrapper included in the qmail source files.
> 
> arf, the perl site is down :o)
> But, if perl-suid is deprecated, why is it in fedora
> core, which is a modern linux distribution ?
> 
> Christophe

My guess would be compatability.

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