update_virus_scanners

[Kevin Spicer]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 03:00, Daniel Bird wrote:

>I seem to be having a problem with update_virus_scanners

>On one box, when I run it, it finds mcafee and f-prot installed but not
>trend (even though they all are).
>On another, it find none of them installed. (which I presume would also
>explain why I've not seen it detect a virus since I installed it
>yesterday?)
>On another, it finds all of them installed.

Make sure that you are running the same version of MailScanner on all
machines (preferably the latest) as there have been recent changes in
this area.  If you updated any of the MailScanner installs make sure you
don't have any .rpmnew files kicking around in /usr/lib/MailScanner.

You can check whether the wrapper scripts are correctly reporting
whether the package is installed (this is how update_virus_scanners
finds out) by looking in the virus.scanners.conf file for your scanner
and calling the wrapper script (2nd field) with the package directory as
the first argument (3rd field) and -IsItInstalled as the second
argument, then checking the exit status.  Any scanner that is installed
should give an exit status of 0.

e.g. for f-prot...
$ /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-wrapper /usr/local/f-prot -IsItInstalled
$ echo $?
0

(which shows that f-prot is detected on my system).




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