mcafee-autoupdate proxy fix

Giulio Cervera giulio.cervera at EDSPA.IT
Mon May 16 17:06:47 IST 2005


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*Giulio Cervera*

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mcafee-autoupdate does not work correctly with proxy, there is small bug
in command line parser.
I have also added --cache=off to wget for download a fresh copy of
update.ini and not a cached copy

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--- mcafee-autoupdate.old       2005-05-16 16:20:39.000000000 +0200
+++ mcafee-autoupdate   2005-05-16 17:38:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
                 ;;
         /*)     PREFIX=$arg
                 ;;
-        http:)  ftp_proxy=$arg
+        http:*)  ftp_proxy=$arg
                 http_proxy=$arg
                 export ftp_proxy
                 export http_proxy
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
 # work out latest dat version
 try=$RETRIES
 while :
-do      getver "wget --tries=$try --waitretry=$INTERVAL --passive-ftp $FTPDIR/update.ini" update.ini "DATVersion="
+do      getver "wget --cache=off --tries=$try --waitretry=$INTERVAL --passive-ftp $FTPDIR/update.ini" update.ini "DATVersion="
         VERSION=$VER
         case $VERSION in
         UNKNOWN)

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