MailScanner and Sophos - missing main virus data

[Julian Field]

At 20:41 22/10/2002, you 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?

What happens if you run
         /usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper /tmp
?
It *should* go and scan /tmp and print something sensible.
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