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

[Hancock, Scott]

I changed it to 

$FallbackServer = 'ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub/';

And I was back in business.  I looked on the f-prot sight for the "manual download of signatures" option.

Scott Hancock


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Knutzen, Heinz (DZ-SH) [mailto:Heinz.Knutzen at DZSH.DE]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Download from http://updates.f-prot.com/files/ failed
> 
> 
> 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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