Weirdnesses in McAfee autoupdate

[Stuart Luppescu]

On 土, 2002-01-12 at 04:21, Julian Field wrote: 
> At 22:58 11/01/2002, you wrote:
> >1) I had to copy /etc/cron.daily/Sophos.autoupdate to mcafee.autoupdate
> >and edit it to do the autoupdate for mcafee.
> >2) When I ran autoupdate the first time I got this message:
> >Global symbol "$DATDir" requires explicit package name at ./autoupdate
> >line 123.
> 
> This has been spotted and will be correct in the next release. It's just a
> "print" line so doesn't actually do any harm at all. Feel free to delete
> the line in question.
Yes, but it seems to prevent the script from running through to
completion successfully. 

[snip] 
> The original had datDIR=$PackageDir/dat and this is where the mcafee
> autoupdate script will put the .dat files it downloads.
No, it looks like it puts the .dat files in a directory named for the
date (e.g., 20020114) and then it's supposed to make a link from that
directory to the dat directory, but it doesn't do it. I have to re-make
the link by hand every day. 
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