Sophos av

[Julian Field]

Most common reason is the path you have set up for
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming actually involves some links to somewhere
else, where you need to give it the absolute path to the directory without
any links.

At 18:22 16/03/2004, you wrote:
>That works, thanks. So that leads me to my next question. So why when I send
>test virii from testvirus.org does it scan them and find them clean??? Both
>clamav and sophos come back clean.
>
>Michael Weiner
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of MW Mike Weiner (5028)
>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:01 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Sophos av
>
>I also grabbed the latest tar and am going to reinstall Sophos using your
>Sophos.install.linux script, which I had NOT done prior to my post.
>
>Thanks Julian for the assist!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:59 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Sophos av
>
>At 17:51 16/03/2004, you wrote:
> >I am trying to evaluate sophos av for possible addition to clamav in
> >our environment, and upon installation I went up to the mailscanner
> >website and checked the faq for implementation and the following test
>actually fails:
> >
> >/usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper eicar.com
> >
> >With the following message:
> >
> >/usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper: line 51:
> >/root/temp/../eicar.com/bin/sweep: Not a directory
> >/usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper: line 51: exec:
> >/root/temp/../eicar.com/bin/sweep: cannot execute: Not a directory
> >
> >Now upon checking the sophos-wrapper I see PackageDir=$1 so I can see
> >why this fails, as it is prepended to the sweep binary as shown above.
> >Does anyone else have this problem? What is the graceful work around,
> >such that when upgrading my changes wont be lost?!?
>
>/usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper /usr/local/Sophos eicar.com is what you
>want.
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz MailScanner thanks
>transtec Computers for their support PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC
>7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654

--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654