Problem with autoupdate.f-prot

[G. Armour Van Horn]

I switched to using
cd /usr/lib/MailScanner; ./f-prot-autoupdate -cron
and didnt see any change in behaviour. I dropped the " -cron" and still saw no
behaviour. After one of the files is updated at f-prot, four times a day I get a
message like the one below.

Just like with the script from f-prot, the command works just fine from the command
line. In fact, I normally copy the command out of the Subject line of the error
message and paste it into the shell. I am generally logged on as root, and the cron
script is set to run as root, so that's not the difference.

Any ideas?

Van





Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:00:03 -0800
From: root at verbose.twistedhistory.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root at verbose.twistedhistory.com
Subject: Cron <root at verbose> cd /usr/lib/MailScanner;./f-prot-autoupdate
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean


FTP address for retrieving files is ftp://eu-1.updates.f-prot.com/pub/
F-Prot signature file update script
There is a new version of SIGN.DEF, starting download.
Download completed.
Fatal error while unzipping file., Bad file descriptor at ./f-prot-autoupdate line
294, <TEMPFILE> line 2.



Julian Field wrote:

> At 06:09 30/10/2002, you wrote:
> >I'm running the updater /usr/local/f-prot_3.12b/check-updates.sh with the cron
> >suffix, and I've never seen it work. But I go to the command line and it works
> >just fine. So I end up using the failure message as a trigger to manually run
> >it.
> >
> >Reading your message, it looks like you are running a different script, but I
> >don't have an autoupdate.f-prot on my system. Should this have been part of
> >the install? Or is this something I should go hunting for? I would welcome a
> >script that normally works with the occasional failure instead of the script
> >that never runs.
>
> You will have /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-autoupdate. Use that.
>
> >I'm running 4.00.0a13-1, in case that explains why I don't have the script you
> >are using.
> >
> >Van
> >
> >
> >
> >Paul Welsh wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using Julian's f-prot autoupdate script:
> > >
> > > #   $Id: autoupdate,v 1.3.2.5 2002/07/15 00:47:26 nwp Exp $
> > >
> > > and today I got the following error in my logs:
> > >
> > > FTP address for retrieving files is ftp://eu-1.updates.f-prot.com/pub/
> > > F-Prot signature file update script
> > > There is a new version of SIGN.DEF, starting download.
> > > Download completed.
> > > Updated SIGN.DEF.
> > > There is a new version of SIGN2.DEF, starting download.
> > > Updated SIGN2.DEF.
> > > There is a new version of MACRO.DEF, starting download.
> > > Download completed.
> > > Download completed.
> > > Could not find correct version of MACRO.DEF, exiting., Bad file descriptor
> > > at /etc/cron.daily/autoupdate.f-prot line 294, <TEMPFILE> chunk 4.
> > >
> > > I ran the script again from the command line and no error messages -
> > > everything was up to date apparently.
> > >
> > > I'm on MailScanner 3.22 with F-Prot 3.12a.
> >
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