On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 16:37 -0400, neidorff wrote: > Hi folks, > > Last night yum automatically updated perl and perl-suid to 5.8.5-14 on > my FC3 system. Now my qmail server no longer sends or receives mail. > So, I downloaded the last perl/perl-suid packages (5.8.5-12) and am > trying to "downgrade" to them. I tried the --oldpackage flag in rpm: > > #rpm -ivh --oldpackage perl-5.8.5-12.FC3.i386.rpm > > but I get file conflict errors--file X of <old version> confilcts with > file X of <new version> > > I want to do this carefully and without failure since a lot of things > on the system depend upon perl. > > How can make the downgrade happen? (I have found no other changes > that would mess things up on this server. If anyone knows of any > other problem that might have caused mail to stop, please let me know) > > Thanks, > > Mark > What makes you think this is perl related? Do you get any errors in your mail log? Have you searched bugzilla, or logged a bug? Do you get any errors in whatever uses perl's log?
