4.54.2 & Sophos on freeBSD

Martin Hepworth martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Tue May 23 13:24:50 UTC 2006


Jeff

Agreed - this doesn't work for old V3/v stuff only V5////

I swapped the savscan for sweep in the sophos-wrapper and everythings back
to normal..

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Martin Hepworth 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-beta-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> beta-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
> Sent: 23 May 2006 13:44
> To: MailScanner Beta-testers
> Subject: RE: 4.54.2 & Sophos on freeBSD
> 
> Julian,
> 
> Turned on debugging in the shell scripts and running
> 
> /opt/MailScanner/lib/sophos-wrapper /opt/sophos -IsItInstalled
> 
> by hand revealed:
> 
> PackageDir=/opt/sophos
> + shift
> + [ x-IsItInstalled = x-IsItInstalled ]
> + [ -x /opt/sophos/bin/savscan ]
> + exit 1
> 
> Well, savscan must be a Sophos 5 feature.  Since I'm running Sophos 4
> on Solaris 10, only sweep is in that directory.  There doesn't seem to
> be any test at the top of sophos-wrapper to figure out if v4 or v5 is
> installed.  Something like:
> 
> if [ -x $PackageDir/bin/sweep ]; then
>     running version 4
> else if [ -x $PackageDir/bin/savscan ]; then
>     running version 5
> else
>     i am confused
> fi
> 
> Right???
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
> 
> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:19:52 +0100
> > From: Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner Beta-testers <mailscanner-
> beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
> > To: 'MailScanner Beta-testers' <mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
> > Subject: RE: 4.54.2 & Sophos on freeBSD
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > Oh good I'm glad it's not just me then ;-)
> >
> > It's really odd - it's failing on this test...
> >
> > if ${WRAPPER} "${PACKAGEDIR}" -IsItInstalled
> >
> > (line 34 of update_virus_scanners).
> >
> > It works fine for clamav, but not for sophos....
> >
> >
> >
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> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mailscanner-beta-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-
> >> beta-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
> >> Sent: 23 May 2006 12:13
> >> To: MailScanner Beta-testers
> >> Subject: Re: 4.54.2 & Sophos on freeBSD
> >>
> >> Hmmm, just discovered the same thing with 4.54.2 on Solaris 10, will
> >> investigate when I get to work this morning...
> >>
> >> Jeff Earickson
> >> Colby College
> >>
> >> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> >>
> >>> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:33:11 +0100
> >>> From: Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com>
> >>> Reply-To: MailScanner Beta-testers <mailscanner-
> >> beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >>> To: mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info
> >>> Subject: 4.54.2 & Sophos on freeBSD
> >>>
> >>> Jules
> >>>
> >>> After upgrading to 4.54.2 on the 12th I've just noticed no Sophos
> >> Updates
> >>> are happening..
> >>>
> >>> Looking at the logs it's not even seeing the Sophos to upgrade.....
> >>>
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> >>> Solid State Logic
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