[Mimedefang] md_syslog problem

[Gary Funck]

Replying to an old thread ...

Mark Darose wrote:
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:55 PM
> 
> I'm playing with MIMEDefang 2.57 on Fedora Core 5 using the 
> RPM build from
> Fedora Extras.  The md_syslog function doesn't work.  Fedora 
> C5 includes
> version 0.13 of Sys::Syslog.
> 
> I've poked around a bit, and figured out that mimedefang.pl 
> seems to be
> forcing Sys::Syslog to use 'setlogsock "inet";'.  I've 
> compared against the
> older MIMEDefang I have in production, and it has 'setlogsock 
> "unix";' with
> comments to try unix for Linux systems and fall back to inet 
> for Solaris. 
> 
> Either starting syslog with the "-r" flag (i.e. listen on udp 514), or
> changing mimedefang.pl to use unix makes it work again.
> 
> My question.  Is this a bug in the rpm build - i.e. they got 
> the configure
> options wrong, so it detected the system incorrectly (my 
> production MD was
> built from source)?  Or is this a change in the way MIMEDefang works.

Miscelaneous config. parameters:
MIMEDefang version 2.58
Unix::Syslog                  : no
IO::Socket                    : Version 1.29
Mail::SpamAssassin            : Version 3.001003
Net::DNS                      : Version 0.59
Unix::Syslog                  : Version 0.100


I have run into the same problem on an FC5 upgrade,
and am wondering what is the recommended fix?