sa-update error

[amphora]

Since today sa-update (without any parameters) suddenly gives this response:

config: invalid regexp for rule __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS: /^\W+([\w+.-]+\@[\w.-]+\.\w\w++)(?:[^\n\w<]{0,80})?<(?!\1)[^\n\s]*\@/i: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?i)^\W+([\w+.-]+\@[\w.-]+\.\w\w++ <-- HERE )(?:[^\n\w<]{0,80})?<(?!\1)[^\n\s]*\@/

channel: lint check of update failed, channel failed

Any ideas?

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

What if you run these commands:

mv /var/lib/spamassassin/ /var/lib/spamassassin~moved
sa-update -D
/etc/init.d/exim restart

?

Will it solve the issue?

 

[amphora]

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately it didn't help.
But the sa-update -D option made me realize I could give some more info regarding this message:

A snippet:

nov 26 16:54:29.791 [10361] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::VBounce from @INC
nov 26 16:54:29.791 [10361] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ImageInfo from @INC
nov 26 16:54:29.792 [10361] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::FreeMail from @INC
nov 26 16:54:29.838 [10361] dbg: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::FreeMail=HASH(0xaa50ab0) implements 'parse_config', priority 0
config: invalid regexp for rule __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS: /^\W+([\w+.-]+\@[\w.-]+\.\w\w++)(?:[^\n\w<]{0,80})?<(?!\1)[^\n\s]*\@/i: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?i)^\W+([\w+.-]+\@[\w.-]+\.\w\w++ <-- HERE )(?:[^\n\w<]{0,80})?<(?!\1)[^\n\s]*\@/

nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4
nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL
nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule HK_NAME_FM_MR_MRS
nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN

It does however seem to end ok but not with exit code 0 or 1 so no update was actually performed

nov 26 16:54:31.682 [10361] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 4

 

[pat_mills]

Perl version issue

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately it didn't help.
But the sa-update -D option made me realize I could give some more info regarding this message:

A snippet:

nov 26 16:54:29.791 [10361] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::VBounce from @INC
nov 26 16:54:29.791 [10361] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ImageInfo from @INC
nov 26 16:54:29.792 [10361] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::FreeMail from @INC
nov 26 16:54:29.838 [10361] dbg: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::FreeMail=HASH(0xaa50ab0) implements 'parse_config', priority 0
config: invalid regexp for rule __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS: /^\W+([\w+.-]+\@[\w.-]+\.\w\w++)(?:[^\n\w<]{0,80})?<(?!\1)[^\n\s]*\@/i: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?i)^\W+([\w+.-]+\@[\w.-]+\.\w\w++ <-- HERE )(?:[^\n\w<]{0,80})?<(?!\1)[^\n\s]*\@/

nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4
nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL
nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule HK_NAME_FM_MR_MRS
nov 26 16:54:30.288 [10361] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN

It does however seem to end ok but not with exit code 0 or 1 so no update was actually performed

nov 26 16:54:31.682 [10361] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 4

It appears they, spamassassin, is using perl 5.10 which added the ++

 

[amphora]

Hmm.... Guess I need to update perl then. current version is 5.8 on that box. Is there a safe way to upgrade to 5.10 or higher without needing to compile everything myself? A simple yum update won't do the trick ofc. Box is running CentOS 5.11 (yeah, quite old but still working just fine besides this)

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

That's actually strange, i'm using CentOS 5 64Bit and sa-update isnt givin this errors and perl version is 5.8.8

Have you tryed to update your perl modules using cpan and/or compile newset perl module needed by spamassassin from source?

Regards

 

[amphora]

Just as suddenly this problem occurred it now seems te have disappeared.
Maybe the people at spam assassin noticed some bug that only occurred on some systems/perl versions and fixed it.