Sophos Wrapper a suggestion

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi,

Thanks.  Shell scripting is not my strong point :-)

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> I have made a bit of a change to simplify it:
> 
> SAV_IDE=$PackageDir/ide
> 
> # Check to see if Sophos is using the Sophos install directory,
> # rather than the MailScanner Sophos update directory.
> if [ \! -x ${PackageDir}/ide -a -x ${PackageDir}/sav ]; then
>   SAV_IDE=$PackageDir/sav
> fi
> 
> You need to escape the ! to make sure you don't hit problems with
> accessing the command history. And even /bin/sh on Solaris supports -a
> so everything else should too.
> 
> Julian Field wrote:
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> > On 10 Nov 2005, at 09:55, Anthony Peacock wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Following on from the discussion yesterday about the SAV_IDE
> >> directory setting for the sophos-wrapper script, I have been giving
> >> this some more thought, and have a proposed modification.
> >>
> >> Summary of the problem
> >>
> >> The sophos-wrapper script is designed to work hand in hand with the
> >> sophos-autoupdate script supplied with MailScanner.  Which makes a
> >> lot of sense seeing as up until recently Sophos did not come with a
> >> default way of keeping it up to date automatically.  This mechanism
> >> uses a non-Sophos directory for storing the virus identity files.
> >> This setup means that on systems that have Sophos installed into
> >> its standard locations the sophos-wrapper script does not work
> >> without either modifying the script, moving Sophos, or creating a
> >> link in the file system.  In my case I had Sophos installed in its
> >> default location and had already created a script to update its
> >> identities. I had to do some furkling around under the bonnet to
> >> work out why the wrapper wasn't working and then put in place a
> >> workaround.  Now that Sophos is able to auto-update itself (even
> >> the Unix versions) it is likely that more people may already have
> >> it installed in the default locations.
> >>
> >> Yesterday there was a suggestion of creating a new wrapper for
> >> standard Sophos installs.  But this is only a case of setting one
> >> directory or another.  I have attached a modified version of
> >> sophos- wrapper that sets the SAV_IDE environment variable
> >> depending on the existence or otherwise of the ide/sav directories.
> >>  Hopefully this will work for both cases without anyone else having
> >> to check under the bonnet.
> >>
> >> The change is basically:
> >>
> >> SAV_IDE=$PackageDir/ide
> >>
> >> # Check to see if Sophos is using the Sophos install directory,
> >> # rather than the MailScanner Sophos update directory
> >> if [ ! -x ${PackageDir}/ide ] && [ -x ${PackageDir}/sav ]; then
> >>   SAV_IDE=$PackageDir/sav
> >> fi
> >>
> >> So the wrapper defaults to the current situation, and if the ide
> >> directory does now exist and the sav directory does, it uses that
> >> one instead.
> >>
> >> Any comments?
> >>
> >> Can this be included in the MailScanner distribution?
> >
> >
> > Once a few people have tried it and all agree that it works, then I 
> > will include it. People, can you test this please?
> 
> 
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