Revised MajorSophos available

[Julian Field]

 From the ChangeLog for 4.23-11...

- All virus scanner package installation paths have been moved to
   virus.scanners.conf so they are not in any of the wrapper or autoupdate
   scripts.
   *NOTE*: If you are not using my "update_virus_scanners" global updater
   *NOTE*: script, but have written your own cron jobs, then you must add
   *NOTE*: the installation path to the autoupdate commands. To see the
   *NOTE*: default path, read virus.scanners.conf.
   *NOTE*: If you don't do this, your autoupdates may not work.

At 01:55 26/09/2003, you wrote:
>Julian has informed me that the latest version of MailScanner (or perhaps
>he meant
>the next version?) has a revised sophos-wrapper script that needs an extra
>command line argument to specify the directory in which Sophos is installed.
>Accordingly, the method used by MajorSophos to determine the currently
>installed
>version of Sophos will fail.  I don't think this will prevent the download
>and installation
>of Sophos, but I don't have the latest version of MailScanner installed so
>I can't test it
>to be sure.
>
>Anyway, I posted a slightly revised version of MajorSophos, that I hope
>will work
>correctly with newer versions of MailScanner, as well as older versions.
>It is a crude
>workaround that involves setting an extra environment variable at the top
>of the
>script.  Unfortunately, (what am I saying?, fortunately) I leave tomorrow
>for 2 weeks
>of bicycling in Tuscany.  When I return, I promise to upgrade my MailScanner
>installation, do some testing, and perhaps write a more elegant solution
>that will work
>transparently with any version of MailScanner.
>
>Perhaps Julian can tell us for which version of MailScanner this is
>necessary. I
>suggest you run MajorSophos with no arguments to see if it correctly
>reports your
>installed version of Sophos.  If it doesn't, then try the new MajorSophos and
>uncomment the SOPHOSDIR variable.  You'll see what I mean.
>
>MajorSophos is available at
>
>http://www.tippingmar.com/majorsophos/

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