sophossavi [was Re: scanning precedence]

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Apr 9 10:40:03 IST 2003


Can you send me the output of
         cd /usr/local/Sophos
         ls -alR
(off-list).

Anyone else experiencing this problem?

If you did a new Sophos.install, you might have lost the link from
libsavi.so to libsavi.so.3 in the /usr/local/Sophos/lib directory.

If that is indeed the problem, then for the next release I have an improved
Sophos.install script which replaces the link.

At 10:14 09/04/2003, you wrote:
>After last night IDE update from Sophos MailScanner started crashing:
>
>Apr  9 08:06:13 host MailScanner[25740]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.14-9 starting...
>Apr  9 08:06:17 host MailScanner[25740]: SophosSAVI ERROR:: initializing
>savi: Unknown error (557)
>
>I've had to change back from sophossavi to sophos.
>
>Any hints on how to debug it on MailScanner ?
>
>/SAVI-Perl-0.15/example root at host# ./scan.pl /tmp/SPAM4.txt
>Version 3.68 (engine 2.14) recognizing 80962 viruses
>         IDE /opt/sophos/lib/vdl.dat released 4/7/2003
>Error setting Mac: 524
>Error setting SafeMacDfHandling: 524
>
>Scanning /tmp/SPAM4.txt - clean
>
>thanks,
></canau
>
>
>On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:51:53AM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 21:54 08/04/2003, you wrote:
> > >I have MailScanner configured to use SpamAssassin and Sophos
> > >and I'm unclear about the order of events.   Considering the recent
> > >performance issues with sweep, I'd like spam actions like delete to
> > >take precedence over and obviate the need for subsequent
> > >virus scanning.   Is this already the case?  Do we have this control?
> >
> > In a batch of messages, there will always be some non-spam that needs
> > scanning, so you can't actually do this. However, if you use the
> > "sophossavi" scanner with the Perl-SAVI module, that avoids all the speed
> > problems with sweep anyway.
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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