4.54.2 & Sophos on freeBSD

Tue May 23 14:11:56 UTC 2006

Here is a new sophos-wrapper that should detect Sophos V4 and V5  
properly.

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On 23 May 2006, at 14:42, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> 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....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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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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>>>>>> Snr Systems Administrator
>>>>>> Solid State Logic
>>>>>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>>>>>
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