+1 on opening a bug, the sooner that happens the sooner we can get the
fix into the next release ;)
Thanks Henrik, that looks promising (if a little crazy).
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 15:20, Henrik K <h...@hege.li> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:52:50AM -0500, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
>> I have just recently installed SA v3.3.0-rc1 on Solaris 10. I have
>> discovered that in order for syslog logging to work, I have to start spamd
>> with the switch "--syslog-socket=native". It won't work if I set it to
>> "unix" or "inet" or if I omit the switch entirely. As this is my first time
>> running SpamAssassin on Solaris 10, I don't know if this discovery also
>> applies to older SpamAssassin versions, but I suspect it does. I suggest
>> the documentation be changed to reflect this, since currently it does not
>> even mention "native" as a legitimate option.
>>
>> In the long term, perhaps "native" can be made the default, or have the code
>> just not call setlogsock() if the --syslog-socket switch is absent. (I
>> don't know if this is feasible with older versions of Sys::Syslog.)
>>
>> This is what the current docs say:
>>
>> --syslog-socket=*type*
>> Specify how spamd should send messages to syslogd. The options are
>> "unix", "inet" or "none". The default is to try "unix" first,
>> falling back to "inet" if perl detects errors in its "unix" support.
>>
>> Some platforms, or versions of perl, are shipped with dysfunctional
>> versions of the Sys::Syslog package which do not support some socket
>> types, so you may need to set this. If you get error messages
>> regarding __PATH_LOG or similar from spamd, try changing this
>> setting.
>
> FYI the code from postgrey, which works pretty well (sorry no time to check
> what's in current SA):
>
> if(defined $Sys::Syslog::VERSION and $Sys::Syslog::VERSION ge '0.15'
> and defined $Net::Server::VERSION and $Net::Server::VERSION ge '0.97') {
> # use 'native' when Sys::Syslog >= 0.15
> $syslog_logsock = 'native';
> }
> elsif($^O eq 'solaris') {
> # 'stream' is broken and 'unix' doesn't work on Solaris: only 'inet'
> # seems to be useable with Sys::Syslog < 0.15
> $syslog_logsock = 'inet';
> }
> else {
> $syslog_logsock = 'unix';
> }
>
> Larry, you should open up a bug..
>
>
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--j.
