SV: SV: Fix in uvscan/autoupdate

[Julian Field]

At 16:22 24/09/2002, you wrote:
>I did the patch but I still get the msg from line 57
>-
>Mcafee update failed: cannot find the the update file, at ./autoupdate line
>93

That error sounds like the ftp site timing out. The US site is horribly 
slow, the Europe site is much faster. Right near the top of the script 
there are 2 lines like this:

#my($ftpsite) = 'ftpeur.nai.com'; # Use faster European mirror instead of
my($ftpsite) = 'ftp.nai.com'; # busy US site

Move the # from the start of 1 line to the start of the other line and 
you'll be using the European mirror site at ftpeur.nai.com. Then try 
re-running it and you will probably find it works now. This seems to have 
been a problem for a few days now.

>-
>I cant really read perl enough to understand whats wrong but if anyone
>got an update file that work pls send it to me so I can try
> From my point of view I can only find 2 reasons for failure
>- missing some perl part like Net::FTP but then I think the script
>  would bail out earlier?
>- something is wrong with paths in the script, my installation of mcafee
>is in /usr/local/uvscan?
>
>I tried with f-prot and it works fine. So I thought maybe my comp
>was stupid so I did a try on another comp. There it starts without
>a bailout but it doesnt finish and no lookfile is writen to /tmp
>Any good or bad advice for me to try because Im lost.
>
>/Anders
>
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > Skickat: den 23 september 2002 23:58
> > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Ämne: Re: SV: Fix in uvscan/autoupdate
> >
> >
> > At 17:59 23/09/2002, you wrote:
> > >As the bad perl knowledge I got I need to ask where these
> > >lines are supposed to be in the script?
> >
> > Around line 66 as it says at the start of the patch.
> >
> >
> > >/Anders
> > >
> > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > > > Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > > > Skickat: den 23 september 2002 18:11
> > > > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > Ämne: Fix in uvscan/autoupdate
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > 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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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