[rt-users] RT2 from BSD to Linux

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 23:34 +0100, Raed El - Hames wrote:
> I don't mean this in a bad way but from experience I would recommend
> spending 2-3 months upgrading to rt3-4 and

  upgrading to rt3-4 is good advice, but to say moving to Linux will
  makes none.  I run rt on FreeBSD without any problems.  If the OP 
  has customization for rt2 and they want this customization for rt3
  then they will need to add it no matter what the OS.


>  moving to linux . else you'll end
> up with problems everytime you upgrade/patch your system.
> 
> Roy
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Liu, Chunyen" <Chunyen.Liu at garmin.com>
> To: <rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 9:44 PM
> Subject: [rt-users] RT2 from BSD to Linux
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Just to see if someone out there still remembers how to work with RT2.
> > We have a version of RT2 extensively modified for special usage.
> > For example, deleting tickets, auto backup, bulk upload from files, etc.
> > It is now on BSD, but we intend to migrate to Linux.    We do not plan to
> > upgrade it to RT3 since hundreds of files have been modified or added in
> > RT2.
> >
> > This is the error when I tried to start Apache:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> > The Parser module is no longer a part of HTML::Mason.  Please see the
> Lexer
> > and Compiler modules, its replacements.\nCompilation failed in require at
> > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/HTML/Mason.pm line 10.\nBEGIN
> > failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4/HTML/Mason.pm
> > line 10.\nCompilation failed in require at /etc/perl/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm
> > line 13.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> > /etc/perl/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm line 13.\nCompilation failed in require at
> > /etc/perl/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm line 246.\nBEGIN failed--compilation
> > aborted at /etc/perl/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm line 246.\nCompilation
> > failed in require at /usr/local/rt2/bin/webmux.pl line 20.\nBEGIN
> > failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/rt2/bin/webmux.pl line
> > 20.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 6) line 1.\n
> > Syntax error on line 82 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> >
> > So, I went ahead and modified Mason.pm as follows:
> > Replace:
> > use HTML::Mason::Parser;
> >
> > with:
> > use HTML::Mason::Compiler;
> > use HTML::Mason::Lexer;
> >
> >
> > Then, I got the following error:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> > Global symbol "$m" requires explicit package name at
> > /usr/local/rt2/bin/webmux.pl line 94.\nCompilation failed in require at
> > (eval 6) line 1.\n
> > Syntax error on line 82 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> > Global symbol "$m" requires explicit package name at
> > /usr/local/rt2/bin/webmux.pl line 94.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> >
> >
> > Any idea how I should proceed?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > - Chunyen
> >
> >
> >
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