Sophos/MailScanner

[Martin Hepworth]

Lisa Wu wrote:
> 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 
> 
> 

Lisa

Can you give a bit more info. Which cron job? is should be 
update_virus_scanners which will do all the scanners you've defined in 
MailScanner.conf.

This script is reasonbly failure proof as it downloads the updates into 
a separate folder and only on success does it move the 'new' to 'live' 
folders as it were.

Also i presume your using the MailScanner Sophos.Install script to 
install your Sophos as well..?? AS mailScanner expects Sophos V4 to be 
in a non-default Sophos Directory.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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