mcafee autoupdate

[Julian Field]

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At 21:21 16/09/2004, you wrote:
>Ugh. I see that if I were using update_virus_scanners this wouldn't have
>happened since that script checks virus.scanners.conf and calls each
>autoupdate script with the ${PACKAGEDIR} it pulls out of the .conf file
>as a commanline argument.
>
>I guess that's what I get for being different.
>
>I suppose it is not recommended to use the individual autoupdate
>scripts, but is it necessarily wrong to do so?

The recommended route is update_virus_scanners as that will do it
correctly. You are welcome to call the individual scripts directly if you
want to (I can't stop you), but if I need to change the command-line
arguments in the future for some reason, you are inviting trouble.
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