problems with sophos autoupdate

Aldas Nabazas aldas at post.vilsat.net
Mon Aug 5 14:19:43 IST 2002


JF> At 13:39 05/08/2002, you wrote:
>>My Sophos 3.57 got out of date, so decided to install 3.59 and also
>>upgraded my Mailscanner to 3.22-10

JF> Did you install Sophos 3.59 using my
JF> /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/Sophos.install script?

>>All works fine, but i get error when i'm trying to download ide files
>>using mailscanner's autoupdate for sophos {noticed that sophos don't
>>provide any update script with their virus scanner}
>>
>>Could not calculate Sophos version number, Bad file descriptor at
>>./autoupdate line 77.

JF> Delete everything under /usr/local/Sophos (except /usr/local/Sophos/bin/*)
JF> and install it using my Sophos.install script. That does an "autoupdate" as
JF> its last action.
JF> --
JF> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
JF> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
JF> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
JF>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

Thank You Julian,

yeah it worked , but now when i'm running
/usr/local/Sophos/bin/autoupdate , i got this error again

looked over your instal script, and can't get why it works for first
time, but when i'am running it i got error's? :)



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