sophos install

[Julian Field]

At 02:06 13/08/2002, you wrote:
>It's time for my first major (3 month) update to sophos after installing
>mailscanner.  Do I have to stop mailscanner before doing the upgrade?  I
>don't see any LockSophos in "Sophos.install" like there is in "autoupdate".
>Is that OK?

Yes it should be fine. The only point at which anything might break is
during "autoupdate" which is called by "Sophos.install".

>Also, here is a very small suggestion, that might go way on the back
>burner.  "Sophos.install"  correctly handles either the "sav-install"
>directory
>or the downloaded "tar.Z" file, but not the "tar" file that comes on the
>monthly CD from sophos.

Fair point :)
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