MailScanner.conf settings for sophossavi

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at colby.edu
Wed Mar 19 15:10:16 UTC 2008


Julian,

I had used sophossavi in the past, then ran into a spell where
I couldn't get it to work, so I just switched to sophos.  This
is slowing down my mail server, so I stared at sophossavi today 
to get it to work again.  I had to fiddle with and reinstall 
SAVI-Perl-0.30 first, then I checked the MailScanner.conf file 
for references to sophossavi.  I found these lines:

Sophos IDE Dir = /opt/sophos-av/lib/sav
and
Monitors For Sophos Updates = /opt/sophos-av/lib/sav/*.ide

On Sun, using Sophos 4.26, my directory layout requires these
to be thus in order for sophossavi work correctly and pass
the --lint test:

Sophos IDE Dir = /opt/sophos-av/ide
Monitors For Sophos Updates = /opt/sophos-av/ide/*.ide

Are these changes a peculiarity of Sun, or are the default entries
wrong in MailScanner.conf for the general case? 
(Version 4.68.5++, of course!)

Jeff Earickson
Colby College



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