mcafee autoupdate

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:40:19AM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> 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.

Yup. I have realised the error of my ways and now conform to the
recommended path.

-Eric Rz.

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