F-Prot Autoupdate

[Julian Field]

At 14:55 24/09/2002, you wrote:
>Updated F-prot to latest version and also updated Mailscanner to latest 3.x
>release.  Now it works.  Is there anyway to copy it into the cron.daily
>directory?  Being a perl script it likely won't work like that?

Take a look at the cron.daily sophos.autoupdate script and you'll see how
to do it.


>Matt
>
> > >Using the perl update script for F-prot provided by MailScanner I always
> > >get: "Unknown fatal error calling "checksum", exiting., Bad file
>descriptor
> > >at autoupdate line 294, <TEMPFILE> chunk 2.".
> >
> > What directory do you have f-prot installed in?
> > What directory contains the "checksum" f-prot program?
> > What happens when you do "ldd checksum" (once you've found the right
> > directory)?
> >
> > Is this script working for other people?

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