F-Prot Update Script Available

[Rishi Gangoly]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: F-Prot Update Script Available


> But what if MailScanner happens to call your copy of F-Prot while it is
> half way through unpacking the zip files? That batch of messages won't be
> scanned properly and so a virus could easily slip through the net.
>
> This is why my autoupdate scripts use a lockfile in /tmp (which interacts
> with MailScanner).


Oh! I did not know you had an autoupdate script. That's a good point, I
hadn't thought of that.

Where is your autoupdate script for f-prot? I am running version 3.20
Release 4 of MailScanner.

The only file I found for f-prot is : /usr/local/f-prot/f-protwrapper

Regards

Rishi