Sophos autoupdate failing on install

[Matt Doherty]

Heres a clip of what Julian Mentioned before about that issue..

[SNIP]
At 13:39 05/08/2002, you wrote:
>My Sophos 3.57 got out of date, so decided to install 3.59 and also
>upgraded my Mailscanner to 3.22-10

Did you install Sophos 3.59 using my
/usr/local/MailScanner/bin/Sophos.install script?

>All works fine, but i get error when i'm trying to download ide files
>using mailscanner's autoupdate for sophos {noticed that sophos don't
>provide any update script with their virus scanner}
>
>Could not calculate Sophos version number, Bad file descriptor at
>./autoupdate line 77.

Delete everything under /usr/local/Sophos (except /usr/local/Sophos/bin/*)
and install it using my Sophos.install script. That does an "autoupdate" as
its last action.
--
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

[SNIP]
This worked for me.

Matt Doherty
IT Dept
Datawatch Corp

>>In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows and Gates?<<

  -----Original Message-----
  From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at VSNL.COM]
  Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:11 AM
  To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
  Subject: Re: Sophos autoupdate failing on install


  I had the same problem. I deleted /usr/local/Sophos directory and ran
  /usr/local/MailScanner/Sophos.install from the directory where the tar.gz
  file from Sophos was downloaded. This is install script installs Sophos in
  the right location and also runs the autoupdate which goes thro' fine.
  Thought I've not looked at the reasons due to lack of time, I know it
works.
  I also know that if I install Sophos where it is supposed to be installed
by
  hand, autoupdate fails in line 77.

  HTH
  Mohan

  -----Original Message-----
  From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
  Behalf Of Chris Waltham
  Sent: 05 September 2002 15:12
  To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
  Subject: Sophos autoupdate failing on install


  Hi guys,

  I'm having a few dramas getting Sophos' autoupdate to run when I'm
  installing it. I've checked the directory names specified in the
autoupdate
  script, but to no avail. When I run the autoupdate file by hand, I get
this
  (it's the same error as upon the initial install):

  root at xxx:/usr/local/sophos/bin# ./autoupdate
  Lynx failed with error return 1
  , Bad file descriptor at ./autoupdate line 77.

  Any ideas?

  thanks again,


  Chris

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