MS 4.23-11: buglet in update_virus_scanners

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,

I did a "find / -name '*rpm*' -print" on my Solaris box, and the
only thing I discovered was that Solaris 9 has the rpm2cpio
command to convert Red Hat rpm packages into cpio format.
I didn't know that.  But I'm a tarfile/source code guy anyway.
No stinkin' rpm files in my setup.  And I don't use f-secure.

--- Jeff

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:10:31 +0100
> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MS 4.23-11: buglet in update_virus_scanners
>
> 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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