Fix in uvscan/autoupdate

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 23 17:10:57 IST 2002


There appears to have been a change in the syntax of the McAfee uvscan
program, which means that the "autoupdate" script for it will bail out with
a "no target specified for scanning" error.

To fix this, just apply this tiny change to uvscan/autoupdate (or
lib/mcafee-autoupdate in V4).

--- autoupdate.old      Mon Sep 23 11:01:01 2002
+++ autoupdate  Mon Sep 23 11:11:31 2002
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
  # to see if the new dat's are o.k attempt to run mcafee with them and
  # check for errors
  print STDERR "About to run mcafee\n";
-open(MCAFEETEST, "$mcafee -d $mcafeeroot | ");
+open(MCAFEETEST, "$mcafee -d $mcafeeroot . | ");
  print STDERR "Running mcafee\n";
  while(<MCAFEETEST>){
         chomp;
--
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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