Debian Sarge update_virus_scanners

[Dhawal Doshy]

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Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Dhawal Doshy wrote:
>> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>     Using MailScanner on Sarge, I found out that my anti-virus 
>>> engines don't get updated, so I created a symlink in /etc/cron.daily/ 
>>> to /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners, without success.  Even running 
>>> the script manually only logs this:
>>>
>>> but no actual update happens, I must update manually.
>>
>> What happen when you manually run the individual scripts?
>> /path/to/bitdefender-autoupdate /opt/bdc [replace with install path]
>> /path/to/clamav-autoupdate /usr [replace with install path]
> 
> Hmmm... none of the scripts in /etc/MailScanner/autoupdate is 
> executable... is that normal?

Doesn't look normal..

[root at sauron ~]# cd /usr/lib/MailScanner
[root at sauron MailScanner]# ll clamav-autoupdate bitdefender-autoupdate
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 22523 Sep  1 14:16 bitdefender-autoupdate
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  2104 Sep  1 14:16 clamav-autoupdate

- dhawal

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