Sophos SAVI problems

[Daniel Kleinsinger]

I've been trying to follow the instructions to install Sophos SAVI to
take advantage of the performance boost, but have run into some
problems.  I'm running MailScanner 4.14-9 w/ SA 2.53 on RH 8.0 w/ perl
5.8.0.  I installed everything following the RPM instructions on
mailscanner.info.  MailScanner has been working great, by the way.
Before I go further, understand that I'm not too good at this whole
Linux thing (I'm sure that's pretty obvious).

The problem I'm having is that when I change Virus Scanners = sophos to
sophossavi and restart MailScanner something funky happens and mail
stops going through.  The only part of the SAVI installation I had
trouble with is the edit the Makefile.PL part.  There's no
/opt/local/lib directory on my computer.  My solution was to replace
both /opt/local/lib references with /usr/local/Sophos/lib instead of
just the first one.  Probably not the right thing to do...  I then maked
and tested and installed without error.  Below are (what I think are)
the relevant sections of my maillog showing the funkiness.  Thanks for
your help.

Daniel

Apr 25 17:52:03 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.14-9 starting...
Apr 25 17:52:05 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: SophosSAVI 3.68 (engine 2.14)
recognizing 80979 viruses
Apr 25 17:52:05 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: SophosSAVI using 15 IDE files
Apr 25 17:52:05 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: Using locktype = flock
Apr 25 17:52:05 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
13643 bytes
Apr 25 17:52:05 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: Sophos update detected,
resetting SAVI library
Apr 25 17:52:05 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: Sophos SAVI library has been
updated, killing this child
Apr 25 17:52:05 nts-2 MailScanner[4739]: MailScanner child dying of old age
Apr 25 17:52:13 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.14-9 starting...
Apr 25 17:52:15 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: SophosSAVI 3.68 (engine 2.14)
recognizing 80979 viruses
Apr 25 17:52:15 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: SophosSAVI using 15 IDE files
Apr 25 17:52:15 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: Using locktype = flock
Apr 25 17:52:15 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
13643 bytes
Apr 25 17:52:15 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: Sophos update detected,
resetting SAVI library
Apr 25 17:52:15 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: Sophos SAVI library has been
updated, killing this child
Apr 25 17:52:15 nts-2 MailScanner[4741]: MailScanner child dying of old age
Apr 25 17:52:23 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.14-9 starting...
Apr 25 17:52:25 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: SophosSAVI 3.68 (engine 2.14)
recognizing 80979 viruses
Apr 25 17:52:25 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: SophosSAVI using 15 IDE files
Apr 25 17:52:25 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: Using locktype = flock
Apr 25 17:52:25 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
13643 bytes
Apr 25 17:52:25 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: Sophos update detected,
resetting SAVI library
Apr 25 17:52:25 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: Sophos SAVI library has been
updated, killing this child
Apr 25 17:52:25 nts-2 MailScanner[4744]: MailScanner child dying of old age
Apr 25 17:52:33 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.14-9 starting...
Apr 25 17:52:35 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: SophosSAVI 3.68 (engine 2.14)
recognizing 80979 viruses
Apr 25 17:52:35 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: SophosSAVI using 15 IDE files
Apr 25 17:52:35 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: Using locktype = flock
Apr 25 17:52:35 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
13643 bytes
Apr 25 17:52:35 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: Sophos update detected,
resetting SAVI library
Apr 25 17:52:35 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: Sophos SAVI library has been
updated, killing this child
Apr 25 17:52:35 nts-2 MailScanner[4750]: MailScanner child dying of old age
Apr 25 17:52:43 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner version 4.14-9 starting...
Apr 25 17:52:45 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: SophosSAVI 3.68 (engine 2.14)
recognizing 80979 viruses
Apr 25 17:52:45 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: SophosSAVI using 15 IDE files
Apr 25 17:52:45 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: Using locktype = flock
Apr 25 17:52:45 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: New Batch: Scanning 2 messages,
13643 bytes
Apr 25 17:52:45 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: Sophos update detected,
resetting SAVI library
Apr 25 17:52:45 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: Sophos SAVI library has been
updated, killing this child
Apr 25 17:52:45 nts-2 MailScanner[4751]: MailScanner child dying of old age