Trend Autoupdate

[Daniel Bird]

Daniel Bird wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I renamed the opr.ini file to opr.ini.$$ to try to ensure multiple
>> running
>> copies are less likely to clash. Otherwise I have left it alone as you
>> say
>> that it works.
>>
>> I'll put it in the next release and see what people think of it.
>>
>> Many thanks for the contribution!
>
>
> I think I've found a bug in the trend wrapper( didn't notice before as i
> was running my update script from cron)
> Once the autoupdate script is installed, and
> /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners is run
>
> the following output is returned:
> Invalid or unknown parameter - -IsItInstalled
>
> If the the line
> exec $PackageDir/bin/$prog "$@"
> in trend-wrapper is changed to
> exec $PackageDir/bin/$prog "-v" (which will obviously stop the scanning)
>
> it works fine. I guess this is something to do with the output of vscan
> and the tests in /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners???

Scub that. Just found I had an old (i guess) trend-wrapper. The one with
4.23-7 works fine.

>
>
>>
>> At 17:10 26/08/2003, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Noticed someone was asking for a trend autoupdate script. A copy of my
>>> one can be found here:
>>>
>>> http://www.sghms.ac.uk/depts/is/trend-autoupdate
>>> or
>>> http://www.danbird.net/dev/mailscanner/trend-autoupdate
>>>
>>> Julian, feel free to include in your distro if you haven't got one
>>> already (oh, and you may want to tidy up a bit)
>>>
>>> Dan
>>
>>
>>>
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Daniel Bird
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Tooting
London SW17 0RE

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Hex dump: Where witches put used curses...
"#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb)) - Shakespeare."