Sophos related questions...

[Julian Field]

At 13:51 20/02/2003, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > Sent: 19 February 2003 18:26
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Sophos related questions...
> >
> >
> > At 18:15 19/02/2003, you wrote:
> > > > Two questions...
> > > >
> > > > 1) Is there any way of identifying Sophos as being 'well out of
> > > > date', and firing off a warning 'Your AV scanner is
> > really old and
> > > > creaky' sort of message as part of MS?
> > > >
> > >Normally you get mailed an error message (its not a very helpful
> > >message
> > >though) from the autoupdate script when Sophos stop
> > supplying IDE's for
> > >your version at which point it needs updating urgently.
> >
> > I have improved the script so that the error message should
> > now be more helpful.
>
>Julian
>
>Our "sophos-autoupdate" script stopped working recently because the
>/etc/wgetrc file (on Linux RedHat) had been replaced and thus
>information about our http proxy server lost.
>
>The "lynx" command (actually a "wget -q -O- ..." command was eventually
>timing out after 19(?) retries (since there was no route to the host)
>and an attempt was then being made to unzip a non-existent
>"n.nn_ide.zip" file by the sophos-autoupdate script!
>
>Will your mods to the error reporting deal correctly with these sorts of
>failures?

I have just added some more error detection to it so hopefully it will spot
this happening. Attached is my latest version, which will be included in
the next release unless I hear any bad reports about it.
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