WARNING: Problems with new version of Sophos (3.74)

[Mike Brudenell]

Greetings -

An update on my continued experimentations with the new (3.74) release of
Sophos Anti-Virus on our Solaris boxes...


The swpmess.dat file
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This is indeed now needed (or a symlink to the original) in the directory
containing the IDEs and "vdl" files.  If missing Sophos gives a warning
about not being able to read it and defaults to using English messages.

Julian's patch (which I applied manually as it was so short) sets up such a
link and keeps Sophos happy.


My assertion that /etc/sav.conf is required
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This wasn't correct.  On Friday my tired brain was causing my fingers to
invoke Sweep directly when testing.

However using the sophos-wrapper script with or without the /etc/sav.conf
file present works just *fine*.


LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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One other side observation is that Sweep from version 3.73 appears to have
been linked against static libraries: you could just run it directly
without having to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the
directory containing the Sophos shared libraries.

However the Sweep with 3.74 appears to be dynamically linked and _does_
require LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set appropriately.

Of course this, too, is irrelevant when using the sophos-wrapper script
(which sets the environment variable for you).

Just thought I'd mention it in passing...


Cheers,

Mike Brudenell

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