Download from http://updates.f-prot.com/files/ failed

[Knutzen, Heinz (DZ-SH)]

See attached check-updates.sh from fp-linux_sb-3.12a.rpm
FALLBACKSERVER is still defined as "http://updates.f-prot.com/files/"
Still no proxy support there.

Viele Grüße

-- Heinz


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 27. November 2002 15:37
> An: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Betreff: Re: Download from http://updates.f-prot.com/files/ failed
> 
> Can you mail me the latest version of their check-updates.sh 
> (or whatever 
> their script is called that does the updates) so that I can get my 
> autoupdate script to match please?
> 
> At 12:23 27/11/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >since yesterday I get error messages from the 
> f-prot-autoupdate script:
> >         F-Prot signature file update script
> >         There is a new version of SIGN.DEF, starting download.
> >         Download from http://updates.f-prot.com/files/ 
> failed, exiting., 
> > Bad file descriptor at 
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-autoupdate line 297, 
> > <TEMPFILE> line 2.
> >
> >There are 3 problems:
> >
> >1.
> >The download server in the output of
> >http://updates.f-prot.com/cgi-bin/check-updates?protocol=1&ru
> n_as=check_updates
> >is
> >S:ftp://eu-2.updates.f-prot.com/pub/
> >
> >Presumably, this has changed recently from a http:// to a 
ftp:// server.
>Our server reaches the internet via a squid proxy server.
>Hence, we have a line
>         $HttpProxy  = 'x.x.x.x:3128';
>in our f-prot-autoupdate.
>But this isn't used for ftp:// downloads.
>I have solved this by adding a similar $FtpProxy variable
>which is used to set the appropriate environment variable:
>         $ENV{'ftp_proxy'} = $FtpProxy if $FtpProxy;
>
>2.
>f-prot-autoupdate uses a
>         $FallbackServer = 'http://updates.f-prot.com/files/';
>This doesn't work either.
>
>3.
>The error message is bad:
>         Bad file descriptor ...
>This script should simply exit and shouldn't try to read from a non 
>existing file.
>Even better, the script should give some hint, for what reason the get 
>command failed.
>
>Viele Grüße
>
>-- Heinz Knutzen
>
>Datenzentrale Schleswig-Holstein
>Altenholzer Str. 10-14, 24161 Altenholz, Germany
>http://www.dzsh.de/
>mailto:heinz.knutzen at dzsh.de
>Tel: +49.431.3295.581 Fax: +49.431.3295.410

-- 
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ

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