Sophos Update

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Aug 5 04:20:12 IST 2003


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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