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Greetings,
<p>On my RedHat 7.2 machine that's been running MailScanner for over a
year, I never had f-prot's update work, but at least when there was a new
definition file I got a failure notice from cron so I could use my own
wget/tar script to fetch the new files. I didn't worry about it too much,
as I have been planning on moving the MailScanner function to a new machine.
<p>Well, the new machine has been running for about ten days so far, and
the new setup checks to updates every hour without my having done anything
at all. However, I don't think it actually does anything. Every mail I
get says this:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>
<pre>/etc/cron.hourly/update_virus_scanners:
Found clamav installed
Updating clamav
Found f-prot installed
Updating f-prot</pre>
</blockquote>
<p><br>When I look in /usr/local/f-prot, the MACRO* and SIGN* files are
dated 23 August, while on the old machine the files are dated on the 25th
and 29th respectively. I think I've updated the SIGN* files four times
in that period.
<p>I have no idea if the ClamAV definitions have been updated in that period,
I just started running it and I don't know where it keeps the files or
even what they are called.
<p>Where should I start looking?
<p>Van
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