[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.68 and 2.70 perl top_env crashing

[Vesa-Matti J Kari]

Hello,

I just installed MIMEDefang 2.68 (and later 2.70) on a test environment
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Tikanga on x86_64. Both of them
resulted in non-functional installations, with mail logs showing the
following kind of strange error messages:

Jul  2 14:02:52 roskakoe mimedefang-multiplexor[2313]: Slave 4 stderr:
panic: top_env
Jul  2 14:02:52 roskakoe mimedefang-multiplexor[2313]: Slave 4 died
prematurely -- check your filter rules


I tracked the problem down to md_syslog() calls in filter_end().

The problem was solved simply by:

   yum install perl-Unix-Syslog

I guess that package should be included inside the mimedefang.spec file
dependencies. Hope this helps.

Regards,
vmk
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