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<DIV><SPAN class=538322313-05092002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Heres
a clip of what Julian Mentioned before about that issue..</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=538322313-05092002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>[SNIP]</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=538322313-05092002>At 13:39 05/08/2002, you wrote: <BR>>My
Sophos 3.57 got out of date, so decided to install 3.59 and also
<BR>>upgraded my Mailscanner to 3.22-10 <BR><BR>Did you install Sophos 3.59
using my <BR>/usr/local/MailScanner/bin/Sophos.install script? <BR><BR>>All
works fine, but i get error when i'm trying to download ide files <BR>>using
mailscanner's autoupdate for sophos {noticed that sophos don't <BR>>provide
any update script with their virus scanner} <BR>> <BR>>Could not calculate
Sophos version number, Bad file descriptor at <BR>>./autoupdate line 77.
<BR><BR>Delete everything under /usr/local/Sophos (except
/usr/local/Sophos/bin/*) <BR>and install it using my Sophos.install script. That
does an "autoupdate" as <BR>its last action. <BR>-- <BR>Julian Field Teaching
Systems Manager <BR>jkf@ecs.soton.ac.uk Dept. of Electronics & Computer
Science <BR>Tel. 023 8059 2817 University of Southampton <BR>Southampton SO17
1BJ <BR><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>[SNIP]</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=538322313-05092002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This
worked for me.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Matt Doherty<BR>IT Dept<BR>Datawatch Corp<BR><BR>>>In a
world without walls or fences, who needs Windows and Gates?<<</FONT> </P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> S Mohan
[mailto:smohan@VSNL.COM]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:11
AM<BR><B>To:</B> MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Sophos
autoupdate failing on install<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I had the same problem. I
deleted /usr/local/Sophos directory and ran
<BR>/usr/local/MailScanner/Sophos.install from the directory where the tar.gz
<BR>file from Sophos was downloaded. This is install script installs Sophos in
<BR>the right location and also runs the autoupdate which goes thro' fine.
<BR>Thought I've not looked at the reasons due to lack of time, I know it
works. <BR>I also know that if I install Sophos where it is supposed to be
installed by <BR>hand, autoupdate fails in line 77. <BR><BR>HTH <BR>Mohan
<BR><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: MailScanner mailing list
[mailto:MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On <BR>Behalf Of Chris Waltham <BR>Sent: 05
September 2002 15:12 <BR>To: MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <BR>Subject: Sophos
autoupdate failing on install <BR><BR><BR>Hi guys, <BR><BR>I'm having a few
dramas getting Sophos' autoupdate to run when I'm <BR>installing it. I've
checked the directory names specified in the autoupdate <BR>script, but to no
avail. When I run the autoupdate file by hand, I get this <BR>(it's the same
error as upon the initial install): <BR><BR>root@xxx:/usr/local/sophos/bin#
./autoupdate <BR>Lynx failed with error return 1 <BR>, Bad file descriptor at
./autoupdate line 77. <BR><BR>Any ideas? <BR><BR>thanks again,
<BR><BR><BR>Chris <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>