Sophos autoupdate error

[Brandon Friedman]

I thinks it's probably because of the out-dated Sophos software. Is
there an easy upgrade procedure?

Thanks for the help

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Regards
Brandon Friedman
ADT South Africa
E-mail: bfriedman at tycoint.com


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Spicer, Kevin
> Sent: 20 January 2003 10:07
> To: MAILSCANNER at jiscmail.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Sophos autoupdate error
>
>
> > Lynx failed with error return 1
> > , Bad file descriptor at /usr/local/Sophos/bin/autoupdate line 83.
> >
> That error usually occurs when sophos-autoupdate fails to get
> a zipfile of IDE's from the web.  If you're getting this
> every time the autoupdate is called then check...
>
> - Your Sophos version is up to date (they only supply IDE's
> for the last 3 monthly releases) - I'd recommend grabbing the
> latest off the web (you get three months life rather than two
> months from the CD releases)
> - You MailScanner machine can access the sophos web site
> (lynx http://www.sophos.co.uk )
>
> I've occasionally had this happen intermittently due to
> things like proxy server being down, sophos's site being down
> or slow to respond etc.
>
>
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