Small typo in f-prot-autoupdate

[Julian Field]

At 06:40 04/09/2003, you wrote:
>i thought the f-prot autoupdate script comes with f-prot software by itslef?
>check-updates.pl???

Their script doesn't do the locking required to ensure that MailScanner
doesn't try to start up f-prot while it is half way through updating. If
MailScanner tried to use f-prot while the update was actually in progress,
there is a chance that it would break and let viruses through. So my script
does the same as theirs but with some locking added to do ths.

>Julian, have you solved the mcp error yet?
>am using SA 2.55 and only PerMsgStatus.pm don't work either by using patch
>or by manually entering it by hand.

Haven't had a chance to get near that yet. MCP isn't ready for mass public
consumption anyway so I'm not too bothered. Also, MCP will still scan text
and HTML sections of messages without the patch.


>Daniel
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:53 PM
>Subject: Re: Small typo in f-prot-autoupdate
>
>
>Thanks for that. Fixed.
>
>At 02:27 03/09/2003, you wrote:
> >Julian there is a small typo in the f-prot-autoupdate script that prevents
> >logging status to /var/log/maillog.  Here's the code segment where I added
> >the open Syslog line right after alarm 0 ...
> >
> >
> >if ($@) {
> >   if ($@ =~ /timeout/) {
> >     # We timed out!
> >     CleanTempDir();
> >     &UnlockFProt();
> >     alarm 0;
> >   }
> >} else {
> >   alarm 0;
> >   Sys::Syslog::openlog("F-Prot autoupdate", 'pid, nowait', 'mail'); ******
> >   Sys::Syslog::syslog('info', $updated?"F-Prot successfully updated.":
> >                                        "F-Prot did not need updating.");
> >}
> >
> >--
> >Gerry
> >
> >"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
>
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>Julian Field
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