Weirdnesses in McAfee autoupdate

[Julian Field]

At 16:50 14/01/2002, you wrote:
>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

But I haven't touch the mcafee autoupdate script in months...


> > -----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.
> > --
> > Stuart Luppescu -=- s-luppescu at uchicago.edu
> > University of Chicago -=- CCSR
> >  $B:MJ8$HCRF`H~$NIc (J -=-    Kernel 2.4.14-xfs                 (J
> > Most legends have their basis in facts.   -- Kirk,
> >  "And The Children Shall Lead", stardate 5029.5
> >

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