Thanks, you were correct. It works I re built it in your order. Thanks every one for the help. Matthew
_____ From: maillist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 January 2007 19:53 To: Matthew Bickerton Cc: 'Daryl C. W. O'Shea'; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamc using different perl Matthew Bickerton wrote: I am having a problem with the Net::DNS module. It just hangs up when trying to resolve a domain to get the TXT data for SPF tests in spanassassin. If I try to reinstall the module it fail the make test. How did you solve the problem? Matthew -----Original Message----- From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2007 19:41 To: Dhaval Patel Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamc using different perl Dhaval Patel wrote: I am running a Debian stable system and have perl 5.8.4 installed from the Debian packages. I had a problem with the Net::DNS module a while back and upgrade perl to 5.8.8 using CPAN. This upgrade installed perl 5.8.8 as the default perl version system wide. Unfortunately Debconf is not part of CPAN, so I cannot install it in 5.8.8. Because of this, certain Debian utilities will not work. Is there anyway to tell spamc to use perl 5.8.8 and leave the rest of the system to use the Debian 5.8.4? Both versions are currently on the system. /usr/bin has perl5.8.4 and perl5.8.8 binaries. Currently /usr/bin/perl is the 5.8.8 binary for spamassassin. Will changing the top line of /usr/bin/spamassassin be all that is needed for spamc? spamc couldn't care less what version of Perl is on your system since it's written in C. All the other programs that ship with SA (spamassassin, spamd, sa-update, etc) are written in Perl. If you want those programs to use a different perl (and I would suggest they all use the same perl), yeah, you can change the shebang line to point at a different perl. Daryl In my experiences with install from scratch, there is an order in which the perl modules need to be installed in. here is the order I found best.... Digest::SHA1 HTML::Parser libwww-perl-5.805 needs - HTML::Tagset Net::DNS needs - Digest::HMAC_MD5 Net::IP IO::Socket::INET6 needs - Socket6-0.19 Mail::SPF::Query needs - Net::CIDR::Lite Sys::Hostname::Long URI::Escape IP::Country Razor2 razor-agents-sdk-2.07 Archive::Tar needs - IO::Zlib Compress-Zlib-1.41 Net::Ident IO::Socket::SSL LWP::UserAgent HTTP::Date ------------------------------------------------- I hope I have this right.... :/ -=Aubrey=-