http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5574





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-07-26 02:20 -------
a mail on the users list has something that may be related:

'Am trying to upgrade to the new 3.2.2 and everything looked OK during
make/test/install but during operation, I'm getting these errors:

Jul 25 13:46:53 boxen spamd[25710]: dcc: check failed: util: setuid 0 to 501
failed! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line
1343.
[some normal spamassassin status messages]
Jul 25 13:46:53 boxen spamd[25710]: spamd: accidental fork: 25710 != 21988
at /usr/bin/spamd line 1628. 
Jul 25 13:46:53 boxen spamd[21988]: dcc: check failed: failed to read header 
[some normal spamassassin status messages]
Jul 25 13:47:00 boxen spamc[25709]: failed sanity check, 1654 bytes claimed,
3385 bytes seen

The resulting messages do not have any X-Spam headers.

I reverted back to 3.2.1 and all of these error messages went away.

This is on a CentOS 4.5 machine running sendmail-8.13.1-3.2.el4, perl
v5.8.5, and dcc-1.3.58.'


(In reply to comment #11)
> Perl 5.8.0 was released 5 years ago (July 18, 2002). The last two Debian
> releases have perl 5.8 (and we all know Debian releases are about as frequent 
> as
> ice ages). Perhaps it is about time to start dropping 5.6 support? 

I'd prefer not to do this -- there are still BSD platforms running 5.6.1, iirc,
and it's not that much trouble to support.  (I maintain a perl561 install on my
laptop, and there's a buildbot too.)

Also, there have been reports of setuid-related problems on perl 5.8.1 and 5.8.5
(see above), so it may not be limited to 5.6.1 anyway...

> (I'm not
> saying we gratuitously dump our perl 5.6 compatibility, we just umm... stop
> fixing perl 5.6 bugs?)

then we become perl 5.6.1 incompatible, we can no longer state that we're
compatible with 5.6.1, therefore we're no longer supporting it. ;)



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