mcafee autoupdate fails for ver 5100

[ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk]

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I battled with this for months last year... it was working on some machines and not others... even though they were identical.

I found out that machines with direct access to Internet were fine... but machines that were behind a proxy server were not... the usual firewall problem...

So in the end... I added 4 lines (not 2 ... being paranoid about casing)... to /etc/crontab .

Once I added in the ftp_proxy and http_proxy lines... it started to work out... ammended the proxy for your network...  (I also did similar settings in the profile.d files incase the crontab ones did not work).

[root at tbshspx2 /etc]# cat crontab
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SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
FTP_PROXY=http://172.16.55.247:3128/
ftp_proxy=http://172.16.55.247:3128/
HTTP_PROXY=http://172.16.55.247:8080/
http_proxy=http://172.16.55.247:8080/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subj: Re: mcafee autoupdate fails for ver 5100
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:27:22 +0530

Ian Miller wrote:
> I just upgraded the virus engine for mcafee and now the autoupdate fails.
> Is this a know problem..
> MailScanner 4.55.10
> solaris 9
> sendmail

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