[Mimedefang] Solaris syslog error

David Minor minor at fusion.gat.com
Fri Apr 2 18:59:33 EST 2004


Hi - I'm working on my second install of MIMEDefang. I've been running 
it for two weeks on a test box with great results but I'm having 
problems now that I'm trying to install it on our production machine.

The problem I'm seeing has been addressed here before but the answers 
given don't seem to work for me. I'm installing version 2.42 on a box 
running Solaris 8. I also have SpamAssassin version 2.63 installed as 
well as Sendmail Switch (the commercial version of Sendmail).

Everything installs with no errors but when I try to run I get a syslog 
error:

mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0 stderr: unix 
dgram connect: Socket operation on non-socket at 
/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 435

mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 980602 mail.info] Slave 0 stderr: no 
connection to syslog available at /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 435

Previous postings about this problem have indicated that installing 
Unix::Syslog solves this problem. Two things though:

- the test machine that I've been running on did NOT have Unix::Syslog 
installed, and it did NOT have any problems running.

- on the production machine I am not able to get Unix::Syslog to 
install. It gives me an error about not finding LOG_AUTHPRI.al, which I 
can't find any reference to anywhere.

If anyone can help with this I would really appreciate it. I've gotten 
everyones hopes up with the success of our MIMEDefang testing!

David.



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