Sophos autoupdate is dead jim!

[Julian Field]

At 20:40 07/05/2002, you wrote:
>I think I had that once.  Turned out my Sophos was out of date.  I still
>had 3.51 installed and they were up to 3.56.  I know they have a new
>release each month, so 3.57 should be available now.  I had to go
>through and reinstall the Sophos software.

Spot on. You have to install the latest version of Sophos at least once
every 3 months, as they only provide IDE files for the current version and
the previous 2 versions.

>On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 15:24, David Fry wrote:
> > greetings list,
> >
> > As of 5:00 a.m. this morning, the Sophos autoupdate script has been dying
> > across all my mailservers.  Nothing has been changed on those boxes .. cron
> > runs the autoupdate hourly.
> >
> > I get the following error:  , Bad file descriptor at ./autoupdate line 77.
> >
> > One time before I got an error like this .. Sophos' website was very busy
> > and it promptly recovered on the next hourly update. It appears this time
> > that is not the case -- the script continues to fail over & over again.
> > Given that nothing has changed on my end, I have to suspect something is
> > awry with the Sophos update site.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea what may be going on or seeing something
> > similar??  Anyone know if Sophos has made changes on their end?
> >
> > I am perplexed!
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help or direction on this guy!
> >
> > -david fry

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