Re: [cobalt-users] SpamAssassin on a Qube3

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 06:31  PM, Rick Eames wrote:
> Thanks!  This is very helpful.  Yes, when I ran the automated tool for
> doing this, it indeed updated my Perl install.  So my secondary question:
>
> I have two perl directories.  ONe is stock, one is the 5.8 stuff.
>
> My /usr/bin/perl is 5.8
>
> How can I get that back to the stock one, or does it matter?

Well, the usual problem with updating Perl on Cobalts is that it breaks 
the GUI. So in that sense, yes, it matters. It hasn't happened to me, so 
please take this with a grain of salt.

As I posted a moment ago on another thread, I have /usr/bin/perl and /usr/
bin/perl5.00503. What do you have?

If you've got

/usr/bin/perl
/usr/bin/perl5.00503
/usr/bin/perl5.8

you could probably link /usr/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl5.00503 (cd /usr/bin;
 mv perl old_perl; ln perl5.00503 perl) and have any scripts which require 
5.8 use /usr/bin/perl5.8 in their hash.

I haven't done this myself. If someone knows why it wouldn't work, please 
correct me.

pjm