[rt-users] Syslog error when installing rt 3.8.2 on Cent OS 5.2

[Shannon Adams]

Perfect, that was it.  Thank you.



----- Original Message ----
From: Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com>
To: Shannon Adams <shannon_adams68 at yahoo.com>
Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:20:19 PM
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Syslog error when installing rt 3.8.2 on Cent OS 5.2




On Wed 18.Feb'09 at 11:25:37 -0800, Shannon Adams wrote:
> I am doing a fresh install of rt 3.8.2 on CentOS 5.2.  I get down to:
> 
> Sys::Syslog version 0.16 required--this is only version 0.13 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Log/Dispatch/Syslog.pm line 13.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Log/Dispatch/Syslog.pm line 13.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/src/build/rt-3.8.2/sbin/../lib/RT.pm line 340.
> make: *** [initialize-database] Error 2
> 
> I cannot figure out how to update Syslog to 0.16 and would appreciate any assistance.

RT doesn't directly require Sys::Syslog, but a downstream dependency,
Log::Dispatch does. 

sudo perl -MCPAN -e'install Sys::Syslog'

should do the trick.