Sophos/MailScanner

[Lisa Wu]

Lisa Wu wrote:

>> Once in a while the server will fail to download its updates from Sophos.
>> (The cause being that our T1 line went down). Then the mail log starts
>> posting MailScanner error messages every 10 seconds until a successful
>> update occurs: 
>> 
>> Sep 6 14:06:50 mail MailScanner[30864]: None of the files matched by the
>> "Monitors For Sophos Updates" patterns exist! 
>> 
>> Because of this error the queue starts placing all messages on hold.

Martin Hepworth wrote:

>Lisa
>
>how are you updating the virus defs for Sophos?


Martin,

There is a cron job that runs the Sophos update script running once every
hour.

Thanks,
Lisa