RES: Mcafee autoupdate

[Craig Pratt]

I don't know if it's related, but wget behind a firewall typically
needs to have the --passive-ftp flag set.

The error from wget would be "Error in server response, closing control
connection." if this flag isn't set and you're behind a firewalls.

Craig

On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 10:08  AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> Roberto Campos <roberto at MEUPROVEDOR.COM.BR> wrote:
>> Ok, so it's not working.
>> I've tryed it my own and it's reporting this:
>> #McAfee update failed: cannot find the update file, Connection timed
>> out
>> at /usr/lib/MailScanner/mcafee-autoupdate line 99.
>
> That's an indication of network problems.
>
> I've posted this before, but the current version of my uvscan-update
> script is even more careful than it was. Unfortunately I can't edit the
> version in the faq-o-matic; I can only append which is ugly and leads
> to
> repetition. (You also can't fix broken item titles, which is a bit
> ugly.
> Perhaps it should be a wiki instead...)
>
>         #!/bin/sh -e
>         #
>         # Update the McAfee data files.
>         #
>         # $Cambridge: hermes/build/bin/uvscan-update,v 1.14 2003/04/11
> 16:57:33 fanf2 Exp $
>
>         LIBDIR=/opt/uvscan
>
>         FTPDIR=ftp://ftpeur.nai.com/pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x
>
>         # version number pattern
>         MATCH=[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
>
>         # work out latest dat version
>         SED="/^DATVersion=\($MATCH\).$/!d;s//\1/;q"
>         VERSION=$(wget -q -O- $FTPDIR/update.ini | sed -e "$SED")
>
>         DATDIR=$LIBDIR/$VERSION
>         FILE=dat-$VERSION.tar
>
>         badversion () {
>                 echo Failed to get McAfee datfile update from "$FTPDIR"
>                 echo FTP version number "\"$VERSION\"" "$@"
>                 exit 1
>         }
>
>         # check the format of the version number
>         case $VERSION in
>         $MATCH) : ok
>                 ;;
>         *)      badversion does not match "$MATCH"
>                 ;;
>         esac
>
>         # already got it?
>         if [ -d $DATDIR ]
>         then
>                 # keep cron quiet by default
>                 case $1 in
>                 -v)     echo Already have "$VERSION"
>                 esac
>                 exit
>         fi
>
>         # work out installed dat version
>         cd $LIBDIR
>         if ls -d $MATCH >/dev/null 2>&1
>         then
>                 INSTALLED=$(ls -d $MATCH | tail -1)
>         else
>                 # no installed version so get whatever is available
>                 INSTALLED=0000
>         fi
>
>         # check new version is actually newer
>         if [ $VERSION -lt $INSTALLED ]
>         then
>                 badversion older than installed "$INSTALLED"
>         fi
>
>         echo Installed dat file is "$INSTALLED"
>         echo Latest dat file is "$VERSION"
>
>         # now we are verbose
>         run() {
>                 echo ">" "$@"
>                 "$@"
>         }
>
>         # fetch and extract dat files
>         run mkdir $DATDIR
>         run cd $DATDIR
>         run wget --progress=dot:mega $FTPDIR/$FILE
>         run tar xvf $FILE
>
>         # verify the contents
>         fail () {
>                 echo "$OUT"
>                 echo Test run failed -- removing bad McAfee data files
>                 run rm -rf $DATDIR
>                 exit 1
>         }
>         trap fail EXIT
>         CMD="uvscan --dat $DATDIR --version 2>&1"
>         echo '> OUT=$('$CMD')'
>         OUT=$($CMD)
>         case "$OUT" in
>         *"Missing or invalid DAT"* | \
>         *"Data file not found"* | \
>         *"Removal datafile clean.dat not found"* | \
>         *"Unable to remove viruses"* )
>                 fail
>                 ;;
>         esac
>         trap EXIT
>
>         echo "$OUT"
>         echo Update OK
>         # change the current dat file links
>         run cd $LIBDIR
>         run ln -sf $VERSION/*.dat .
>         # remove some crap
>         run cd $DATDIR
>         run rm -f *.exe *.tar *.txt
>
>         echo
>         echo Completed OK
>
>         # done
>
> Tony.
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Craig Pratt
Strongbox Network Services Inc.
mailto:craig at strong-box.net


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