Problem with autoupdate.f-prot

[Julian Field]

At 06:09 30/10/2002, you wrote:
>I'm running the updater /usr/local/f-prot_3.12b/check-updates.sh with the cron
>suffix, and I've never seen it work. But I go to the command line and it works
>just fine. So I end up using the failure message as a trigger to manually run
>it.
>
>Reading your message, it looks like you are running a different script, but I
>don't have an autoupdate.f-prot on my system. Should this have been part of
>the install? Or is this something I should go hunting for? I would welcome a
>script that normally works with the occasional failure instead of the script
>that never runs.

You will have /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-autoupdate. Use that.


>I'm running 4.00.0a13-1, in case that explains why I don't have the script you
>are using.
>
>Van
>
>
>
>Paul Welsh wrote:
>
> > I'm using Julian's f-prot autoupdate script:
> >
> > #   $Id: autoupdate,v 1.3.2.5 2002/07/15 00:47:26 nwp Exp $
> >
> > and today I got the following error in my logs:
> >
> > FTP address for retrieving files is ftp://eu-1.updates.f-prot.com/pub/
> > F-Prot signature file update script
> > There is a new version of SIGN.DEF, starting download.
> > Download completed.
> > Updated SIGN.DEF.
> > There is a new version of SIGN2.DEF, starting download.
> > Updated SIGN2.DEF.
> > There is a new version of MACRO.DEF, starting download.
> > Download completed.
> > Download completed.
> > Could not find correct version of MACRO.DEF, exiting., Bad file descriptor
> > at /etc/cron.daily/autoupdate.f-prot line 294, <TEMPFILE> chunk 4.
> >
> > I ran the script again from the command line and no error messages -
> > everything was up to date apparently.
> >
> > I'm on MailScanner 3.22 with F-Prot 3.12a.
>
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