setup for Sophos autoupdate?

[Kelly Hamlin]

make a symbolic link in the lib dir like this
ln -s vdl-3.57x.dat vdl-3.57.dat

should solve your problem :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at COLBY.EDU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:44 PM
Subject: setup for Sophos autoupdate?


> Help...
>
>    I can't figure out why autoupdate won't go (error: Could not calculate
> Sophos version number), and I wonder if I have my directories and
executable
> placement correct.  I have Sophos SAVI 3.57x installed.  The
directory/file
> structure for my /opt/sophos looks like:
>
> (91)> ls -CFR
> .:
> bin/  ide@  lib/  man/  sav/  src/
>
> ./bin:
> autoupdate*      icheckd*         sweep*     sophoswrapper*
>
> ./lib:
> libsavi.so.2@           libsavi.so.2.2.03.090*
>
> ./man:
> man1/  man5/
>
> ./man/man1:
> icheckd.1   sweep.1
>
> ./man/man5:
> icheckd.conf.5
>
> ./sav:
> vdl-3.57x.dat   vdl.dat@
>
> The ide symlink points to the sav directory (I put it there, trying to get
> autoupdate to go).  My reading of the Sophos docs say that the ide files
> in the updates need to end up in the same directory as the dat file
> (directory sav).  What do I set the following code variables to?
>
> $SophosRoot = "/opt/sophos";
> $IDELink    = "/opt/sophos/ide";
> $VDLDir     = "../lib";
>
> What is wrong?
>
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