Mcafee autoupdate revisited

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jun 6 15:13:26 IST 2003


Try running /usr/lib/MailScanner/mcafee-autoupdate and see if it says
anything useful (or posts anything useful in your maillog).

At 14:32 06/06/2003, you wrote:
>HI,
>
>Sorry to badger this one, but I do not believe my autoupdate is working
>correctly. I have recently upgraded to 4.21-9, have removed the previous
>cron job that I had been calling and am relying on the rpm installed
>update_virus_scanners that is implemented in my cron.hourly directory. In my
>system log I can see that 04:01:01 pilx CROND[26206]: (root) CMD (run-parts
>/etc/cron.hourly) runs and then no subsequent errors however yesterday upon
>reading more regarding bugbear.b I checked my latest dat file and it had not
>been upgraded to mcafee's release on June 5th. Should I be looking elsewhere
>for an error? If you could please direct me to some things to check that
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks again,
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Mark Tavares
>IS Tech Support
>Professional Investments Inc.
>1-888-548-8868
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