4.54.2 & Sophos on freeBSD

Tue May 23 13:42:03 UTC 2006

I commented out the first two if blocks in sophos-wrapper and Sophos
updates worked again.  Our Fearless Leader (tm) will have to suggest
a fix to sophos-wrapper.

Jeff Earickson

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:24:50 +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
>
> 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
> 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 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....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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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>>>>> Martin Hepworth
>>>>> Snr Systems Administrator
>>>>> Solid State Logic
>>>>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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