Weirdnesses in McAfee autoupdate

Lawrence E. Bartash/NPCUSA Engineering lawbar at NPCUSA.COM
Mon Jan 14 16:50:55 GMT 2002


I also experience this problem. The unlink and symlink does not appear to be
working. I'm not sure that LockMcafee and UnlockMcafee are working either
because I do not see the print statements when running autoupdate from the
command line. Weird. It was working prior to upgrading from 2.62 to 3.00-3

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Luppescu [SMTP:s-luppescu at UCHICAGO.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:26 AM
> To:   MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject:      Re: Weirdnesses in McAfee autoupdate
>
> On  $BEZ (J, 2002-01-12 at 04:21, Julian Field wrote:  (J
> > At 22:58 11/01/2002, you wrote:
> > >1) I had to copy /etc/cron.daily/Sophos.autoupdate to mcafee.autoupdate
> > >and edit it to do the autoupdate for mcafee.
> > >2) When I ran autoupdate the first time I got this message:
> > >Global symbol "$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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