Trying to install SpamAssassin

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anthony911

Guys I'm trying to install SpamAssassin 3.2.5 and I keep getting this error I don't understand why
I have perl5.8.9 installed on my machine
can anyone help me out?
 

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I believe I found the error
I did perl-after-upgrade portmaster -f p5*
it rearranged some packages and now I tried to run the install again and it is working
It asked me to fetch the new rules I put yes..what rules is it asking for?
 
The Spamassassin rulesets that determine which messages contain spam patterns. See sa-update(1). They're in /usr/local/share/spamassassin, I believe.
 
Ok all seems to be well dutchdaemon
my final question is (maybe the command just changed in 7.2)
but in 6.1 i had a command called touch /reconfigure
this command in 7.2 does nothing...did it change from release 6.1 to 7.2?
 
Never heard of it (what is the exact command?). What is that command supposed to be doing?
 
The command # touch /reconfigure will create an empty file called reconfigure on the root file system.

It's used on Sun Solaris boxes when you change hardware, after a reboot the system would reconfigure itself.
It never did anything (besides obviously creating the file) on FreeBSD ;)
 
Not on FreeBSD, no. I'm wondering what makes you conclude that it works no longer. What did you see happening on 6.1?
 
Well let's say I made some kind of change in my whitelist or blacklist on my spam or I added a new user to my exchange or something I would normally have to do touch /reconfigure and then reboot my spambox in order for the changes to take effect.

I can give you the exact output that is displayed when I do touch /reconfigure I still have 6.1 somewhere
 
Probably something that was scripted for that specific purpose (by someone with a Solaris background)? It's not uncommon for scripts to get triggered by the presence of a certain file in a certain place at boot time. Look in the start-up directories and files (/etc/rc.conf.local, /etc/rc.local, /etc/rc.d/, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, crontab, and thereabouts) for a script.
 
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