Sophos autoupdate script and proxy servers

[Paul Houselander]

If your mailserver is on a linux box it will use wget to obtain the ide's.

Take a look at the man page for wget, Ive not done it before but it does have options to set

http_proxy
--proxy-user
--proxy-passwd

So you could add these parameters to the wget line in the auto-update script

You should have a wgetrc file somewhere where I think you can set these options as well.

Paul


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Chivers 
  To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:02 PM
  Subject: Sophos autoupdate script and proxy servers


  I'm sorry if this is slightly of topic but I'm not sure who else to ask. 

  We currently run Mailscanner on our email gateway with great success and every night it happily goes off and get the latest ide's from Sophos. We are now planning on installing and running Sophos on all our internal server. 

  The problem is that the machines have no direct connection to the web only via our proxy server that requires authentication.
  Could someone tell me how to alter the autoupdate script to do this or would it be easier to copy the file from the mail gateway onto the internal machines, if this is the case which directories / files should I copy over ?

  Thanks in advance 
  Brian Chivers
  (A Very confused Support Officer :-) )
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