MailScanner and Sophos - missing main virus data

[Joel Colvin]

Thanks, you put me on the right track.  I think I had a lingering
problem from before I discovered the Sophos.install script.  I just
completely deleted /usr/local/Sophos and re-ran Sophos.install and now
things are as they should be.

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Michael Janssen
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:09 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: MailScanner and Sophos - missing main virus data


Hello Jeol,

what happens when you start sweep via the sophoswrapper? This script is
in the Sophos/bin directory and sets the environment for MS.

Take a look if vdl.dat (main virus data ...) in Sophos/lib is correctly
linked against the recent vdl-3.62(or somewhat).dat and that the link
Sophos/ide directs to the ide-dir (names contains of Sophosversion and
date).

I have made experiences, that Sophos might complain about seemingly
correct links. Delete and relink them (and move and remove the files)
had helped me.


regards
Michael

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Joel Colvin wrote:

> I get the following error during each process of mail:
>
> Error initialising detection engine - missing main virus data
>
> All other parts of MailScanner work fine.
>
> I've installed today's version of MailScanner, installed SpamAssassin,

> downloaded Sophos libc6 version and put it in /tmp and then ran
> Sophos.install.  Spam detection works good and I do not get any errors

> when manually running the Sophos sweep command on individual files so
> I assume it's a config problem on my end.  Any ideas?
>
> Joel
>