RedHat 9 and mcafee problems OT?

[David Lancaster]

Interesting tidbit here:
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/phoebe-list/2003-February/002128.html

And for the version on my RH9 box (4.2.40), doing an:
"export export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" makes uvscan run without erroring or hanging.

D.

Quoting Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:

> At 04:17 09/04/2003, you wrote:
> >hi,
> >is anyone else using mcafee uvscan either 416 or 424
> >able to get it to function with redhat 9?
>
> I have just downloaded the evaluation version which claims to be 424.
> Even on a RedHat 8 system, it relies on a RedHat 7.3 compatibility package
> for the old libstdc++ McAfee uses.
> This compatibility package doesn't get installed by default on RedHat 9. I
> have just installed the compat-libcstdc++ package. McAfee does indeed hang.
> Tracing it gives the following at the end:
>
> open("/proc/devices", O_RDONLY)         = 4
> fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
> 0x402f5000
> read(4, "Character devices:\n  1 mem\n  2 p"..., 4096) = 378
> futex(0x80864b0, FUTEX_WAIT, -39, NULL
>
> so for some reason it is reading /proc/devices (I even passed "--noboot" on
> the command line). It then sits in a lock waiting for something that will
> never happen.
>
> So you are quite correct, McAfee does not work on RedHat 9. I'll post a
> news item on the MailScanner web site.
>
> >the scan on its own hangs the system with either
> >version, and if i use it with MailScanner after a LONG
> >delay ( hours)every email comes up infected with a DOS
> >attack.  i tried it with both an upgrade and a clean
> >install.
> >trying to contact nai/mcafee is maddening.
> >
> >sorry for the borderline/off topic post
> >
> >thanks,
> >brett
> >
> >
> >--- Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> > > Just remembered to let you folks know that, as far
> > > as I can see,
> > > MailScanner works fine with RedHat 9.
> > > I've had it running here for quite a few days now,
> > > and it seems happy enough.
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> >support
> >
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