Problems with BitDefender updtaes ?

[Julian Field]

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Julian Field wrote:

> Stephen Swaney wrote:
>
>> steve.swaney at fsl.com
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>> Behalf Of Denis Beauchemin
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:31 AM
>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: Re: Problems with BitDefender updtaes ?
>>>
>>> Michael H. Martel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone else seeing problesm with the BitDefender updates ?  This
>>>> isn't a
>>>> MailScanner issue per se, since it happens with :
>>>>
>>>> /opt/bdc/bdc --update
>>>>
>>>> But it causes the cronjob (update_virus_scanners.cron) to hang and not
>>>> update other av scanners.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Same problem here yesterday on one server (others were running OK).  I
>>> noticed it when I didn't get McAfee updated on one server while the 3
>>> others did get updated.
>>>
>>> Looks like their site is sometimes quite slow...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm seeing the same thing on several systems. Their site is quite
>> slow. I
>> just killed a lot of bdc processes and then ran the update manually.
>> It took
>> a little over 10 minutes to finish.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Didn't Julian put some timeout validation in recent versions of MS?  I
>>> know it's not there in 4.34/4.35.
>>>
>>> Denis
>>>
>>>
>>
>> As you probably know by now, Julian just posted an update to the
>> BitDefender
>> update script. I'm installing it but upping the timeout to 20 minutes
>> based
>> on what I just saw.
>>
>>
> I have just changed the default value to 20 minutes, and it is now set
> in a variable right at the top of the file so that it is easy to change.
> To change it at the moment, look for the word "alarm" and you will find
> it. Measured in seconds.

As Steve just pointed out to me, it might be a good idea if I actually
sent you the improved script with the 20 minute timeout, configured at
the top of the script.

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