Problem with Sophos 3.62 on Linux

[Julian Field]

Please try the attached Sophos.install and sophos-autoupdate scripts and
let me know if they solve the problem or not.

At 10:35 24/10/2002, you wrote:
>We have used MailScanner for a number of months on our department
>mail server, and it has been a life-saver.
>
>I updated to version 4.01-8 using the 'tar' version (not the RPM), and
>then downloaded linux.intel.libc6.tar.Z from Sophos for their version 3.62.
>I installed everything as the documentation says (I think), and used
>/opt/MailScanner/bin/Sophos.install to install the Sophos software.
>After starting the system, I get error messages:
>
>Error initialising detection engine - missing part of virus data
>
>
>The error seems to be in the shell script 'sophos-wrapper'
>If I do an strace on it, this comes out at the end:
>
>
>close(4)                                = 0
>open("/usr/local/Sophos/ide/vdl01.vdb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
>file or directory)
>close(3)                                = 0
>write(2, "Error initialising detection eng"..., 65Error initialising
>detection engine - missing part of virus data
>) = 65
>brk(0x8084000)                          = 0x8084000
>_exit(2)                                = ?
>
>The file 'vdl01.vdb' is in /usr/local/Sophos/lib, not in
>/usr/localSophos/ide,
>it is put there by the script 'Sophos.install'  There are now a number
>of vdl files.  In version 3.62, /usr/local/Sophos/lib contains
>
>libsavi.so.3
>libsavi.so.3.2.05.022
>vdl-3.62.dat
>vdl.dat
>vdl01.vdb
>vdl02.vdb
>vdl03.vdb
>vdl04.vdb
>vdl05.vdb
>vdl06.vdb
>vdl07.vdb
>
>
>whereas for version 3.59 it only has
>
>libsavi.so.3
>libsavi.so.3.2.05.012
>vdl-3.59.dat
>vdl.dat
>
>If I enter as a test
>
>/usr/local/Sophos/bin/sweep /usr/local/Sophos
>
>this apparently runs correctly.
>
>If I try
>
>/opt/MailScanner/lib/sophos-wrapper /usr/local/Sophos
>
>(which should be essentially the same), this gives the error stated
>above.   Curiously, if I comment out the lines
>
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PackageDir/lib
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>in sophos-wrapper, it works OK.  But MailScanner doesn't like that.
>
>In  Readunix.txt in the Sophos distro, I find the paragraph
>
>"b) Multi-file virus data
>"
>"   Virus information can now be supplied as a number of small files rather
>"   than as a single large file.  This will reduce the size of monthly
>virus
>"   data updates as only the small files that have been updated need to be
>"   replaced. Sophos Anti-Virus has been updated to read virus data from
>"   the new multi-file format, while retaining support for the original
>"   combined format.
>
>which might mean that they have changed something basic.
>
>I have installed a trial version of McAfee uvscan as a temporary measure,
>but would prefer to go back to Sophos.
>
>System information:  I am running SuSE Linux 8.0 on a 2-Processor
>system, using sendmail as an MTA.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>-- Howard Schultens
>
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