Solved -- Re: McAfee autoupdater debugging

[Julian Field]

On 18/3/09 17:36, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-18-2009 10:29 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
>    
>> on 3-18-2009 10:00 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
>>      
>>> on 3-18-2009 8:44 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
>>>        
>>>> on 3-18-2009 3:01 AM Randal, Phil spake the following:
>>>>          
>>>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> I just seem to remember it cleaning up after itself in the past
>>>>>> (maybe distant past), so I had not been checking until I got a low
>>>>>> space warning on the /usr partition.
>>>>>> I guess I will just write ANOTHER cron job to clean this monster up.
>>>>>> ;-P
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Try
>>>>>
>>>>> OPTS="-d"
>>>>>
>>>>> at the start of /usr/lib/MailScanner/mcafee-autoupdate
>>>>>
>>>>> Works here.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you still have to manually remove existing old dat directories.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Phil
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> Testing this today. Just waiting for the next update.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I moved the datfiles directory and ran the update. At least it doesn't break
>>> anything. Now to see if it cleans. I guess I will have to wait another day.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> I tested it on another server that still had an older update on it and it
>> worked great! This must have been the default at one time in the distant past,
>> because I swear it used to clean up after itself. Or maybe I had fixed it in
>> the past (and forgot) and an update wiped it out.
>>
>> Thanks Phil!
>>
>>
>>      
> Julian,
> If you see this, is there any reason this option( OPTS="-d" ) can't be the
> default in the mcafee-autoupdate script? I don't see a reason to keep a bunch
> of old dat files around.
>    
No reason at all. I have changed the master copy, and it will be in the 
next release.

Jules

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