SAVI-Perl/Sophos on RedHat Enterprise 4

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 3 18:02:18 GMT 2005


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You just need the command-line scanner product, not anything for mail
servers or anything like that. I believe they call it their SAVI licence.

Steve Hickel wrote:

> Just curious, what is the exact name of the sophos product you
> installed with mailscanner?? Someone wants me to add sophos as a third
> virus scanner (in addition to clamav and f-prot) and I am trying to
> figure out which sophos product I should use to do that? Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:15 +0000, Peter Bates wrote:
>
>>Hello all...
>>
>>Sorry, not strictly an MS problem, just wondering if anyone else had
>>stumbled over this...
>>
>>I'm playing with a test box on RHEL4.
>>
>>Sophos installed fine, and using 'sophos' as the virus scanner, all is
>>okay.
>>
>>However, I normally try and install SAVI-Perl for obvious reasons.
>>
>>The latest version would appear to be 0.30.
>>
>>I installed Sophos, and then edited Makefile.PL as normal:
>>    'LIBS'      => ['-L/usr/local/Sophos/lib -R/usr/local/Sophos/lib
>>-lsavi'],
>>
>>I run make:
>>
>>cp SAVI.pm blib/lib/SAVI.pm
>>AutoSplitting blib/lib/SAVI.pm (blib/lib/auto/SAVI)
>>/usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap
>>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  SAVI.xs >
>>SAVI.xsc && mv SAVI.xsc SAVI.c
>>Please specify prototyping behavior for SAVI.xs (see perlxs manual)
>>gcc -c  -I. -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing
>>-pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
>>-I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4
>>-DVERSION=\"0.30\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.30\" -fPIC
>>"-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE"   SAVI.c
>>Running Mkbootstrap for SAVI ()
>>chmod 644 SAVI.bs
>>rm -f blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.so
>>gcc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib SAVI.o  -o blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.so
>>-L/usr/local/Sophos/lib -R/usr/local/Sophos/lib -lsavi
>>gcc: unrecognized option `-R/usr/local/Sophos/lib'
>>chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.so
>>cp SAVI.bs blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.bs
>>chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.bs
>>Manifying blib/man3/SAVI.3pm
>>
>>... it's the 'gcc: unrecognized option' that looks to me that isn't
>>actually building the .so shared library... there is, though, a SAVI.so
>>in blib/arch/auto/SAVI.
>>
>>make test shows:
>>
>>PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
>>"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
>>t/use....Can't load
>>'/root/av/sophos/SAVI-Perl-0.30/blib/arch/auto/SAVI/SAVI.so' for module
>>SAVI: libsavi.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>>directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm
>>line 230.
>> at t/use.t line 8
>>
>>... it is, however, there.
>>
>>Running a forced 'make install' and then using 'sophossavi' in
>>MailScanner elicits errors about not being able to find SAVI:
>>
>>Mar  3 16:41:16 james MailScanner[16086]: SAVI Perl module not found,
>>did you
>>install it?
>>
>>Anyone else swimming in these dark waters before I try the auth of
>>SAVI-Perl?
>>
>>
>>
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