I am quite happy running on a standard slackware 9 build.... Read the faq and set up the suid wrapper....
It works fine... ----- Original Message ----- From: "D.Monroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]qq crashed/temporary failure/rights and PERL 5.8.0 > Richard Geoffrion wrote: > > > We run several mail servers on Slackware 8.1, which has perl 5.6.1, and > > qmail and qmail-scanner 1.13. We've tried deploying 2 new servers with > > Slackware 9.0 (perl 5.8.0) and either qmail-scanner 1.16 or 1.20rc1. > > Neither works. We believe it is because the new Slackware/perl lacks > > /usr/bin/suidperl. > > that seems to be the "trend" with the new(er) linux distros. Slackware 9 > has no suidperl, ditto for Redhat 8 or 9. There are suidperl RPM's > available for Redhat, but I don't see same for Slackware. Looks like you > have to rebuild perl with suid option yourself > > From Slackware 9 perl.build notes: > > ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/os/slackware/slackware-9.0/source/d/perl/perl.build > > # We no longer include suidperl. To quote the INSTALL file: > # > # Because of the buggy history of suidperl, and the difficulty > # of properly security auditing as large and complex piece of > # software as Perl, we cannot recommend using suidperl and the feature > # should be considered deprecated. > # Instead use for example 'sudo': http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ > > given this "trend" away from suidperl support, has anyone managed to use > sudo with Q-S? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. > Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From > careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the > best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 > _______________________________________________ > Qmail-scanner-general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
