sophos update installs crontab entry

[Julian Field]

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Anthony Peacock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mark Nienberg wrote:
>> I noticed that the following recently appeared in my root crontab, 
>> presumably after MailScanner updated sophos v5:
>>
>> 3-59/5 * * * * /opt/sophos-av/bin/savupdate
>>
>> This runs a sophos update every 5 minutes and doesn't do the locking 
>> that MailScanner does, so it is probably best to delete it and allow 
>> MailScanner to take care of updates.
>>
>> I wonder if it is possible to modify the sophos-autoupdate script to 
>> remove this entry if savupdate creates it?
>
> -1
>
> Please don't.
>
> I really don't want MailScanner messing with my Sophos install thank 
> you very much.
>
But hopefully you install Sophos using my Sophos.install script at the 
moment. It's possible that script could be written to remove that 
crontab entry. That way it would only get done once, at install-time.
Whatever method you use to install it, do *not* install the on-access 
scanning. You can safely disable all the sav-* init.d scripts too. I 
might do some work on that.

Jules

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