Debian Sarge update_virus_scanners

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> 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
> 

Is there a way, with debian, to know what was supposed to be the 
permissions in the .deb package?

-- 
Ugo

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