Sophos Anti-Virus

[Joseph Watson]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:11 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Sophos Anti-Virus


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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