[cobalt-users] Installing SpamAssassin on a Raq3i looking for /.cpan? Config file

["Tunc Eresen" <tunc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,  

Could not find Cpan config file anywhere. Where H. are you config
file...@~#' got to get you 
I have same issue I keyed Y for Cpan install and now I can not find
/.cpan folder to delete and restart the spamassesin config. 


O. TUNC ERESEN

tunc@xxxxxxxxxx



I'm having a tough time with it.

First of all, I'm trying to use CPAN to no avail.  Here is an example 
of what happens to me running as root using CPAN -- where do I go from 
here?

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
Going to read y/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read y/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Scanning cache y/build for sizes
Going to read y/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
CPAN: MD5 loaded ok
y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.63.tar.gz: No such file or 
directory
Checksum mismatch for distribution file. Please investigate.

Distribution id = A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.63.tar.gz
     CPAN_USERID  ANDK (Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@xxxxxxxx>)
     MD5_STATUS
     localfile    y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.63.tar.gz

I'd recommend removing y/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.63.tar.gz. 
It
seems to
be a bogus file. Maybe you have configured your `urllist' with a bad
URL. Please check this array with `o conf urllist', and retry.
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The CPAN shell should be run from root, i.e. su then cd /root

Your config file directory (y/)  looks like a misconfugured config file
i.e. you anssered y to the default directory prompt when building the
initial config file  when you should have just jit <ENTER>. I agree you
should do a rm -rF y and also remove your cpan config file so it can be
created again from scratch. Note when running from root and cd'ed to
root, the cpan directories will be located in the /root/.cpan directory.