sophossavi [was Re: scanning precedence]

[Carlos Canau]

Opsss...  I was  running sophosautoupdate  from version  3  instead of
Sophos-autoupdate from version 4.

"Problem" solved :-)))

</Canau


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> 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.
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