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Spamassassin object method location problems after restart

After spamassassin was restarted by the daily cronjob this morning it's flooding syslog with the following errors: Feb 9 09:24:26 mail spamd[8766]: spamd: got connection over /var/run/spamd.socket Feb 9 09:24:26 mail spamd[8766]: spamd: setuid to…
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fixing cpan by resetting it

So I ran into a simple little problem. I wasn't connected to the internet and started cpan. It started to configure for the first time and then when I realised a few seconds later that the internet wasn't connected I hit Ctrl + C When I connected to…
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How to create a custom Perl distribution

I would create a custom Perl distribution for perl-5.30.0.tar.gz. I would include in the perl-5.30.0.tar.gz following Perl modules HTML::Entities HTML::Strip Devel::CheckLib Net::DNS Mail::DKIM::Verifier…
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Wrapper for package managers

There are a lot of language-specific package managers like cpan for perl, cabal for haskell etc. When we want to install some software, it can sometimes be installed from a corresponding repo, with installation instruction just like (say, Yaxy) npm…
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Terminal has cannot find any commands!

I was installing the latest version of perl using brew on my Mac OSX and was then prompted by perl to use local::lib to create my own directory of Perl Packages downloaded from CPAN. Here is a history of my commands: 431 brew install…
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PAC Manager dependencies problem under Centos 7.1

I have downloaded PAC Manager but when I try to do yum install on it, I get dependency errors at the end: Error: Package: pac-4.5.5.5-2.x86_64 (/pac-4.5.5.5-2.x86_64) Requires: perl(Gnome2::GConf) Error: Package: pac-4.5.5.5-2.x86_64…
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Make a rpm package from the cpan compatible tree?

I always make my perl module following the CPAN-complient tree. I would like to use this tree to create a rpm file I could install on a hundreth servers. Is it possible to make a rpm package with ExtUtils::MakeMaker? Where could a 'helloworld'…
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How to upgrade File::Path on my Mac OS X as a non-root user

My mac machine is quite old (Mac OS X 10.6.8) and I have a question on how to upgrade a perl module File::Path. I mostly compile my LaTeX document using latexmk which is basically a perl script. It requires File::Path version 2.08 but I got an…
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Error installing perl BerkeleyDB module

I'm trying to install a program which has various perl dependencies. One of the perl dependencies (BerkeleyDB) fails during install. I know very little about perl. Is there a way for me (as a user) to solve this? Is there a SPAN command to try…
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Perl dependency issue

I've installed CentOS 6.3 (i386) recently. It has two perl binary /usr/bin/perl (v5.10.1) /usr/local/appx/perl/bin/perl (v5.8.8) My question: Is it possible to install some other funtinonality to that application using system wide perl & perl's…
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Perl CPAN module download fails

The download for the 'App-xml_grep2-0.14.tar.gz' perl module continually fails for me. cpan http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIROD/App-xml_grep2-0.14.tar.gz Please login with USER and PASS Passive mode off. Please login with USER and…
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Centos8/RHEL8 - How to dnf install package with missing dependencies?

Centos8, Trying to install mimedefang dnf install mimedefang - nothing provides perl(Digest::SHA1) needed by mimedefang-2.84-5.el8.x86_64 - nothing provides perl(IO::Stringy) >= 1.212 needed by mimedefang-2.84-5.el8.x86_64 The two dependencies do…
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SpamAssassin: UTF-16 surrogate 0xd800 at /usr/local/share/perl5/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm line 67

When my Spam Assassin cron job runs, it gives Perl error messages which are then emailed to me by the cron daemon. How can I fix this error or warning? Cron job: /usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/sa-update.log UTF-16…
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Install custom perl modules

I have build an RPM from a proprietary software collection in a CentOS 7 environment but the build process required executing some Perl modules (.pm files) found within the source itself. When I execute rpm -Uvh rpm-name.rpm I get failed…
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Perl CPAN Module from command line?

I found a Perl module that is often packaged on Debian. In my case I didn't have access to an updated package manager, but I do have Perl. So I ran cpan which opened up cpan shell where I entered install App::Ack. Now I want to run Ack from command…
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