VPS + RH9 + Perl v5.8.8 + MailScanner = Problem

There appears to be a compatibility issue with the above combination and some of the perl modules that come as standard with perl v5.8.8, in particular Sys::Syslog which prevents some perl scripts from functioning correctly on VPS systems. One of those perl scripts is MailScanner. It doesn’t appear to affect real servers running RH9, however they should have been upgraded to a supported OS years ago.The only solutions if you are in this situation are to:1. Move to a VPS running a supported OS (e.g. CentOS v3+ RHE v3+)2. Downgrade perl to v5.8.7 – this is a bad idea since cPanel v11 and some of the latest perl modules that cPanel uses don’t functions as expected on anything older than perl v5.8.83. Uninstall MailScanner – though you are likely to start seeing problems with cPanel in the future due to such incompatibilities