Bug 48764 – after upgrading fcron mrtg borks

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[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) 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.