RedHat 9 and mcafee problems OT?

[Brett Moss]

good morning,
thank you for the info i'll try that out

thanks,
brett

--- David Lancaster <dml at UNB.CA> wrote:
> 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.
> > > > --
> > > > Julian Field
> > > > www.MailScanner.info
> > > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for
> their
> > >support
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
>
>
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