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Bug 48764

Summary: after upgrading fcron mrtg borks
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: André Lemos <tux>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description André Lemos 2004-04-23 00:50:40 UTC
I know this sounds strange, but I believe that the only thing that I've updated recently was fcron, and now every 5 minutes I get the following error for my mrtg scripts:

Number found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.2/IO/Socket/INET.pm line 231, near "9 1"
        (Missing operator before  1?)
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.2/IO/Socket/INET.pm line 231, near "9 1"

etc etc.... I know it looks like a perl issue, but I don't believe I have updated in a while.
Comment 1 Eric Brown 2004-04-23 13:42:21 UTC
what's on line 231 of INET.pm?

perl 5.8.3 i have: 
    return $sock->SUPER::bind(@_ == 1 ? shift : pack_sockaddr_in(@_))

so.. if you have =9 1 that would be bad.
Comment 2 André Lemos 2004-04-23 13:47:26 UTC
find /usr -name "INET.pm"
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.2/IO/Socket/INET.pm


Line 231
return $sock->SUPER::bind(@_ =9 1 ? shift : pack_sockaddr_in(@_))
Comment 3 André Lemos 2004-04-23 13:49:22 UTC
I've changed my file so that it looks like yours, and now mrtg works again...

WHAT GIVES? what might have changed that? I wasn't, that's for sure..
Comment 4 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-09-21 13:27:32 UTC
This falls into the realm of "weird, unreproducable". Sorry we couldn't help more, nothing in the ebuild for IO::Socket::INET would do something like this and can't reproduce this.