Sopos Upgrade Issues

[Julian Field]

Sophos have slowly changed over to the new file structure in their scanner.
As a result you need a recent sophos-autoupdate. You don't necessarily have
to upgrade your entire MailScanner installation, you just need the new
sophos-autoupdate and the new Sophos.install.

My Sophos.install does make an attempt at removing any Sophos code that was
installed using their installation script, so that their libraries don't
get in the way.

And when testing it, you have to run sophos-wrapper and not directly run
sweep, in order to set up the environment for it properly.

One of my main objections to their layout was that they put the IDE files
in with all the code, whereas when updating automatically it makes more
sense to keep them in a separate directory which can be completely replaced
with a new directory *if* the update succeeds. I don't want to leave a
half-working copy of Sophos if something goes wrong.

At 01:25 02/03/2003, you wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Mike Wallis wrote:
>
>[missing virus data error]
> > After the upgrade, I'm not seeing the errors from Sophos any longer.
>
>Hey! Julian did figure out how to catch this nasty Sophos output, didn't
>he? Sophos writes directly to /dev/tty, therefore it was tricky.
>
>I suggest you to check manually if Sophos is now doing the job (unless it
>depends on the settings of the sophoswrapper script this error is not
>assoziated with MailScanner and an upgrade of MailScanner can't *solve*
>the problem (unless Julian have programmed a routine that silently
>repairs broken Sophos installation. But that would be short to silently
>log in an fix any problem manually ;-)
>
>cheers
>Michael
>
> >
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> > Mike Wallis
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