SophosSavi problm

[Julian Field]

Fancy adding that to the faq-o-matic please?

At 12:40 03/05/2003, you wrote:
>Forget it. I found the problem.  The cron job for updating the virus
>defs was calling an older Sophos-autoupdate locating in my sophos/bin
>dir.  It was place there since the 3.x days per the
>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/sophos.shtml
>instructions.
>
>-=B
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rose, Bobby
>Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:50 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: SophosSavi problm
>
>
>I just checked my test box and it's doing the same thing.  It looks like
>it started after the last Sophos update around 12am and when Mailscanner
>did it's 4 hr restarted it, it started to show it's reporting the
>problem.
>
>If I run the scan.pl from the SAVI examples, I get
>Version 3.69 (engine 2.14) recognizing 81434 viruses
>         IDE /usr/local/Sophos/lib/vdl.dat released 5/5/2003 Error
>setting Mac: 524 Error setting SafeMacDfHandling: 524
>
>But I don't know if that error is normal since I didn't run it before
>this problem crept up.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rose, Bobby
>Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:18 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: SophosSavi problm
>
>
>This was working yesterday when I started using it for the first time
>but it suddenly stopped working early this morning.  Mailscanner is
>logging an error when starting up now
>
>MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner version 4.20-2 starting... SophosSAVI
>ERROR:: initializing savi: Unknown error (557)
>
>I swithced back to plain old sophos and it seems to be working ok other
>than a little slower as was discussed last month or so.  I recompiled
>Savi and it's make test works.  Is there something else that I can try
>to get a better log message to figure out it's problem?
>
>-=Bobby

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