[Mimedefang] problem with file include on mimedefang 2.28

[John McFarlane]

Hello all :)


I installed mimedefang 2.26 on freebsd from the ports and it runs great. I 
bought my production server and installed 2.28.  When I start mimedefang 
this gets posted to the maillog:

----->
Jan 10 00:42:08 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 0 (pid 55373) 
(1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
Jan 10 00:42:08 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Can't locate 
/usr/local/etc/mimedefang/mimedefang-filter in @INC (@INC contains: lib 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 . /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach 
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503) at /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 3129.
Jan 10 00:42:08 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 0 (pid 55373) 
exited normally with status 13 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)
Jan 10 00:42:11 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 0 (pid 55388) 
(1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
Jan 10 00:42:11 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Received SIGTERM: Killing 
slaves and terminating
-----><

line 3131 is this:

	require $Filter;

In order to fix the problem, I added this after line 3124 (the only change 
I have made to the file)

	push(@INC,$Filter);

where $Filter  =  the path to the config file (it's been correctly pathed 
the entire time

now the small chuck of the file reads:

--->
    3124     # Load the filter  UPDATE: following line added by jmcfarlane
    3125     push(@INC,$Filter);
    3126     init_globals();
    3127     if (! -r $Filter) {
    3128         md_syslog('err', "Cannot read filter $Filter: Check 
permissions.  mimedefang.pl will not work.");
    3129     }
    3130     require $Filter;
--->

after adding that line, the error is now:

----->
Jan 10 00:31:01 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 0 (pid 55276) 
(1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
Jan 10 00:31:01 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Can't locate 
/usr/local/etc/mimedefang/mimedefang-filter in @INC (@INC contains: lib 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 . /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach 
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/mimedefang-filter) at 
/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 3131.
Jan 10 00:31:01 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 0 (pid 55276) 
exited normally with status 13 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)
Jan 10 00:31:02 mail mimedefang-multiplexor: Received SIGTERM: Killing 
slaves and terminating
----->


so it looks like the config file is now in the @INC array, though it's 
still complaining that it can't find it.  Any help would be appreciated.

ps: this is freebsd 4.7 release and the mimedefang2.8 port (after 
successful cvsup)


John McFarlane
http://thinkflat.com