Problem with Sophos 3.70 and sophossavi

[Steve Freegard]

Julian,

I've had this problem since I started using Perl-SAVI on RH9 (with v3.67
Sophos) - I had cured it by putting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5; export
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL into /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner.

I've just removed the above changes and removed /etc/sav.conf as
recommended, and can confirm that this fixes the problem for me as well.

Kind regards,
Steve

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Steve Freegard
System Manager
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: 07/06/03 18:24
Subject: Problem with Sophos 3.70 and sophossavi

There appears to be a problem with the most recent Sophos releases and
the
sophossavi virus scanner.
MailScanner will segfault when it first tries to set up the sophossavi
scanner.

The symptom is that MailScanner continually re-forks its child processes
so
every 10 seconds you will get a notice in your maillog saying the
MailScanner is starting up, but no mail will be processed.

The workaround is very simple:
        rm /etc/sav.conf

The next release will include a new Sophos.install script which does
this
step for you.
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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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