MS 4.23-11: buglet in update_virus_scanners

[Julian Field]

Have you made sure there aren't any .rpmnew files in the
/usr/lib/MailScanner directory? The f-secure-wrapper and
f-secure-autoupdate scripts should support all the command line options
necessary.
If you are convinced otherwise, please let me know.

At 22:23 10/09/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>    Yes, I too saw the same thing and just commented out the f-secure
>line in virus.scanners.conf.  Similar setup: SunFire V1280, Sol 9,
>MailScanner 4.23-11, sophossavi 3.72, clamav 0.60, SpamAssassin 2.60,
>Razor.
>
>--- Jeff
>
>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Peter Bonivart wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:06:59 +0200
> > From: Peter Bonivart <peter at UCGBOOK.COM>
> > Reply-To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: MS 4.23-11: buglet in update_virus_scanners
> >
> > Fixed the grep thing but had another small problem with the update
> > script. I got an error from the F-secure test. It correctly identified
> > only Clam being installed but it erred on F-secure. I did some tests and
> > found this line to be at fault (however I don't know why):
> >
> >      if ${WRAPPER} "${PACKAGEDIR}" -IsItInstalled
> >
> > I removed the F-secure line from the virus list and all was well. I
> > don't see why the F-secure line was any different. Anyone else having this?
> >
> > /Peter Bonivart
> >
> > --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
> >
> > Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, MailScanner 4.23-11, SpamAssassin 2.55, ClamAV
> > 20030829
> >
> >  >At 13:56 08/09/2003, you wrote:
> >  >>Julian,
> >  >>    I just upgraded from 4.22-5 to 4.23-11, and update_virus_scanners
> >  >>gagged the first time cron ran it on my Solaris 9 box.  It turns out
> >  >>the /usr/bin/grep on Sun does not support the "-e" option, while
> >  >>GNU grep (/usr/local/bin on my box) or /usr/xpg4/bin/grep does.
> >  >>So I had to tweak my copy to use GNU grep.  I don't how you want to
> >  >>fix this for all permutations of grep.  What a pain.
> >  >
> >  >It seems to be just a Solaris problem at the moment, I have already
> >  >added a
> >  >bit extra to the script so that it puts /usr/xpg4/bin (or is it
> >  >/usr/bin/xpg4) in the path before /usr/bin so that the correct
> version >of
> >  >grep is found. You don't need the GNU version, the xpg4 version is
> > just >fine.
> >

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