Sophos Update

[Julian Field]

You need "uncompress" as well as "unzip".
RPMs for both of these will be on your RedHat CD's. They are also available
from any RedHat FTP server mirror.

At 01:25 05/08/2003, you wrote:
>Is unzip installed?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Richard Sidlin
>Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 5:07 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Sophos Update
>
>
>I downloaded the file again. I had a look inside the archive and most of the
>files are dated mid July. This is what happened when I run the script:
>
>[root /root]# cd /tmp
>[root /tmp]# /usr/sbin/Sophos.install
>Clearing out old default Sophos installation libraries
>Uncompressing Sophos distribution
>/usr/sbin/Sophos.install: uncompress: command not found
>Installing Sophos for MailScanner
>Sophos Anti-Virus installation utility [Linux/Intel]
>Copyright (c) 1998,2001 Sophos Plc, Oxford, England
>
>Binaries will be installed in '/usr/local/Sophos/bin'
>Libraries will be installed in '/usr/local/Sophos/lib'
>Manual pages will be installed in '/usr/local/Sophos/man'
>Virus data will be installed in '/usr/local/Sophos/lib'
>
>SWEEP will be installed
>InterCheck will not be installed
>
>===> Installing binaries
>sweep copied to /usr/local/Sophos/bin/sweep
>
>===> Installing shared library
>libsavi.so.2.2.03.098 copied to /usr/local/Sophos/lib/libsavi.so.2.2.03.098
>libsavi.so.2.2.03.098 symlinked to /usr/local/Sophos/lib/libsavi.so.2
>ldconfig /usr/local/Sophos/lib
>
>===> Installing virus data
>vdl-3.66.dat copied to /usr/local/Sophos/lib/vdl-3.66.dat
>vdl-3.66.dat symlinked to /usr/local/Sophos/lib/vdl.dat
>Adjusting /etc/sav.conf
>
>===> Installing manual pages
>sweep.1 copied to /usr/local/Sophos/man/man1/sweep.1
>
>===> Checking paths are accessible
>Warning: $PATH does not include /usr/local/Sophos/bin
>          To run Sophos Anti-Virus you need to set environment variable $PATH
>so
>          that it includes /usr/local/Sophos/bin.
>
>Warning: Neither $LD_LIBRARY_PATH nor /etc/ld.so.conf include
>          /usr/local/Sophos/lib.
>          You need to either include an entry for /usr/local/Sophos/lib in
>          /etc/ld.so.conf, or set environment variable $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
>          include /usr/local/Sophos/lib or you will not be able to use Sophos
>          Anti-Virus.
>
>          Manual path is OK
>Some environment variables may need to be set on your system. To make these
>settings permanent, add them to your login script or profile; to make these
>settings systemwide, amend /etc/login or /etc/profile.
>===> Installation complete <===
>Creating links so Perl-SAVI module compiles
>
>Fetching latest IDE virus identities from www.sophos.com
>Your Sophos installation may be too old. Please install the latest release
>of SophosLynx failed with error return 1
>, Bad file descriptor at /usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-autoupdate line 94.
>Done.
>
>Richard
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: 04 August 2003 22:17
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Sophos Update
>
>
>At 22:13 04/08/2003, you wrote:
>
>Isn't that the linux.intel.libc6.tar.Z file?
>
>Yes. If you have downloaded that file to, say, /tmp, then you need to do
>         cd /tmp
>         Sophos.install
>and it will install and update that version.
>
>
>
>Richard
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Stephen Swaney
>Sent: 04 August 2003 22:08
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Sophos Update
>
>
>Richard,
>
>
>I believe that after about 3 months, you need to download the full Sophos
>Distribution. Julian has provided a script to do this:
>
>/usr/sbin/MajorSophos.sh
>
>
>You'll need to modify this script to add your Sophos username and password.
>
>Steve
>Steve at Swaney.com
>
>On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:53, Richard Sidlin wrote:Richard,
>
>
>
>I have just
>downloaded and installed the latest Sophos engine from their
>website. When I ran the install, I got the following error:
>
>Aug  4 21:01:02 ns2 Sophos-autoupdate[6540]: Your Sophos
>installation
>may be too old. Please install the latest release of Sophos
>Aug  4 21:01:02 ns2 Sophos-autoupdate[6540]: Lynx failed with
>error
>return 1
>
>Any ideas anyone?
>
>
>Richard
>
>
>
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