Sophos Anti-Virus

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Sep 24 17:10:37 IST 2004


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Remove all trace of Sophos's installation, and use my "Sophos.install"
utility. This will install it in all the places MailScanner likes, so you
won't need to edit anything at all.

cd /tmp
Download the Sophos tar.Z file to /tmp
/usr/sbin/Sophos.install


At 16:57 24/09/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Just today I decided to try a trial version of Sophos Anti-Virus with
>MailScanner.  By default, it was installed in the following location:
>
>   - binaries in /usr/local/bin
>   - the shared library in /usr/local/lib
>   - the virus data in /usr/local/sav
>   - manual pages in /usr/local/man
>
>In /etc/Mailscanner/virus.scanners.conf the default package directory is set
>to /usr/local/Sophos.  Also in the sophos-wrapper, the IDE directory was
>"ide".  But my default install put it under a "sav" directory.  So I had to
>edit both the sophos-wrapper and the virus.scanners.conf to make it work.
>
>This is really no big deal, but was just wondering:  Did I install something
>that is different then what others are using from Sophos, or did Sophos
>change the installation location?  I am just curious if anyone else has seen
>this?
>
>Mandrake Linux 10.0
>MailScanner 4.33.3
>
>- Regards
>
>Joseph Watson
>
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