Sophos-autoupdate error 16777215

[Ulysees]

Had a similar issue sunday between 7:00 & 14:30 gmt

Lynx failed with error return 1
, Bad file descriptor at /usr/local/Sophos/bin/autoupdate line 77.

Bit late in the day for Slammer but maybe the Sophos site was just acting
up.

Uly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at COLBY.EDU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Sophos-autoupdate error 16777215


> Julian,
>    I got this message a lot this weekend, and my Sophos is up-to-date.
> I think the Slammer worm just slowed down the internet enough to
> cause lynx downloads to time out, and the script to fail.  The script
> started working again later for me, without any changes.
>
> --- Jeff
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:55:16 +0000
> > From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Sophos-autoupdate error 16777215
> >
> > At 16:54 27/01/2003, you wrote:
> > >When I run Sophos-autoupdate I get the following output.
> > >
> > >Unzip failed with error return 16777215
> > >, Bad file descriptor at ./sophos-autoupdate line 83.
> > >
> > >
> > >What's going on?
> >
> > Perhaps your installed copy of Sophos has just got too old and so they
> > aren't producing updates for it any more. Download and install the
latest
> > version from their website and try again.
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
>