F-Prot Autoupdate

[Julian Field]

At 23:47 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.
>
>I just took the autoupdate file you put in the F-Prot directory when
>Mailscanner installed and put it in the cron.daily directory renamed
>"autoupdate.pl".  Will that work?

Yes, that will work okay, but it's better to put the little wrapper around
it that you will find in the other scripts in that directory.
And there's not point renaming it, it won't make any difference.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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