Sophos v5

[Greg Matthews]

Just a data point following someones question about sophos v5... this
will not even install on CentOS v4. the sophos provided install.sh
script dies very quickly with:

        # ./install.sh -v -d /usr/local/Sophos/
        'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "<string>", line 1, in ?
        zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not
        available

even tho

        # rpm -qa | grep zlib
        zlib-devel-1.2.1.2-1.2
        zlib-1.2.1.2-1.2

In fact Sophos will not even support RHELv4. The product is supported on
ancient versions of redhat up to rhel3. But they do appear to support
its installation on suse with a 2.6 kernel... This seems like a pretty
poor show given how long RHEL4 has been out, and that v5 is due out this
year.

less surprisingly, they still dont support 64bit architectures. Not sure
how they expect to be taken seriously as a server based solution with
such poor support for server architectures.

GREG
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Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford


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