MailScanner is looking for Sophos

Vicente Guerrero M. vguerrero at minar.com
Tue Oct 29 18:10:54 GMT 2002


I just ran the script (check_MailScanner) and everything seems to be normal.

If something go wrong  I'll let you know.

Thank you all.



Vicente Guerrero M.
Monterrey, MEXICO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: MailScanner is looking for Sophos


> Are you starting it up correctly (by using the "check_MailScanner"
script)?
> It might not be reading your MailScanner.conf file at all otherwise.
>
> At 16:45 29/10/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi, I have a Redhat 7.1 box running sendmail 8.9.3, MailScanner 4.02-2,
and
> >f-prot.
> >
> >The follow message is appearing at the shell prompt every time
MailScanner
> >is invoked to scan mails...
>
>
>
> >[root at ns0 etc]# /usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper:
> >/usr/local/Sophos/bin/sweep: No such file or directory
> >/usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper: exec: /usr/local/Sophos/bin/sweep:
> >cannot execute: No such file or directory
>
> I would expect that command to fail as you don't have Sophos installed,
and
> you just asked it to run it.
>
> >At the mailscanner.conf file i have this line:
> >Virus Scanners = f-prot
>
> Check it is reading your MailScanner.conf file. Try throwing a syntax
error
> in it and see if it reports the error (probably in your maillog). Or even
> better, just do an "ls -alu" on the conf file to tell you when it was last
> read.
> --
> 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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