minor change for Sophos.autoupdate

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Sep 20 09:18:57 IST 2002


At 19:33 19/09/2002, you wrote:
>What is the difference between running that and check-updates.sh ?

My autoupdate script locks out MailScanner while the update is happening.

If you use check-updates.sh and you get an email coming in while it is
running, you may let a virus or two in as MailScanner will try to run the
update script when it is "half installed".

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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