I need someone experienced and knowledgable in SpamAssassin, Perl and FreeBSD to fix me a problem I'm having with getting spamassassin v3.03 working properly on cPanel server.

The problem appears to be incorrect link between the different Perl libraries (from 5.6.1 to 5.8.5) it seems no matter what I've tried whether to reinstall spamassassin from ports, or from shell, it is not using the default perl5.8.5 folder for some reason.

This is causing errors, and spamassassin not tagging messages properly, the score is not working....etc

This is an example of one part of the problem:

May 17 00:36:13 server spamd[59948]: bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 160.

May 17 00:36:13 server spamd[59900]: Cannot open bayes databases /usr/home/username/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists

May 17 00:36:13 server spamd[59900]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4.BACKUP/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 184.

May 17 00:36:13 server spamd[59900]: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 875.


If you have good experience with BSD systems, spamassassin, quote me your price.

Thanks,

Tamouh

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What's the output of perl -v?

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Hey Alan,

server# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 5) configuration:
Platform:
osname=freebsd, osvers=4.10-release-p2, archname=i386-freebsd-64int
uname='freebsd impala.smallvillages.com 4.10-release-p2 freebsd 4.10-release-p2 #0: tue aug 17 15:21:34 edt 2004 miha@impala.smallvillages.com:usrsrcsyscompilegenqhz i386 '
config_args='-sde -Dprefix=/usr/local -Darchlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/mach -Dprivlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5 -Dman3dir=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/perl/man/man3 -Dman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/mach -Dsitelib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 -Dscriptdir=/usr/local/bin -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Ui_malloc -Ui_iconv -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dcc=cc -Doptimize=-O -pipe -Duseshrplib -Dccflags=-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/BSDPAN" -Ud_dosuid -Ui_gdbm -Dusethreads=n -Dusemymalloc=y -Duse64bitint'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include',
optimize='-O -pipe ',
cppflags='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
libs=-lgdbm -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
perllibs=-lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/mach/CORE'
cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES
Built under freebsd
Compiled at Aug 17 2004 23:33:19
@INC:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/mach
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4.BACKUP
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/BSDPAN
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/mach
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5
.

server# spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.0.3
running on Perl version 5.8.5

You know what, on a second look, I think the problem had resolved itself. I played around last night and completely screwed-up spamassassin. Then ran /scripts/upcp and it seems cPanel got it installed correctly this time.

Good to hear