Sophos Trouble

[BIS]

Hallo All,

I am scratching my head at this one. I have a mailserver running RH7.3, Sophos antivirus and Mailscanner. For some reason the autoupdate function of Sophos does not work.
I have tried to install the latest version of Sophos (I get the cd's monthly), but whatever I try I always get:

Lynx failed with error return 1
, Bad file descriptor at ./autoupdate line 83.

This is an error message I get when I run the autoupdate script (in /usr/local/Sophos/bin/autoupdate).

Lynx is defined in teh script as
$Lynx = "/usr/bin/wget -q -O-"; # On Linux use this

and wget is where it is supposed to be.

Anybody got any ideas? I can post the autoupdate script here if neccessary but it is rather long (99 lines).

 

[jad]

error return 1 is 'Your sophos installation may be too old. Please install the latest release of Sophos'

did you use the Sophos.install.linux (from MailScanner) script to install it from the CD?

 

[BIS]

Thanks for your reply. I copied the linux.intel.libc6.tar from the cd rom. removed the old sav-install directory. untarred it. cd to /usr/local/sav-install directory where the install.sh is located. From there I did /usr/local/Mailscanner/bin/Sophos.install .
I also tried just running the install.sh but still the same error.
Are you telling me that I have mixed up the cds? That would be a laugh - i will check to make certain when I get to this machine again (tomorow).

 

[jad]

well it looks for a version number from $SophosRoot/bin/$VDLDir

$VDLDir is defined as ../lib
$SophosRoot is usually defined as /usr/local/bin/Sophos at least in the script

look to see if there is a file vdl-<version-number>.dat in
/usr/local/Sophos/lib/

that is the file number it is asking lynx to fetch.

it then unzips the zip to a directory of: /usr/local/Sophos/<version-number>.<year><month><date><hour><min>

then it tries to link the IDE directory to this new directory.

BTW. there is a possibility that there are messages in the syslog file.

btw do you have $IDELink defined in your sophos-autoupdate file?

 

[BIS]

Hmmm,

vdl-3.68.dat
$IDELink = &quot;/usr/local/Sophos/ide&quot;;

I am beginning to believe that I mixed up the cds, or perhaps the Mailscanner version is getting too old...

I will let you know. Many thanks for your help so far.

 

[BIS]

OK, I upgraded Mailscanner to version 4 - during the installation I get this:

Please remember to kill all the old mailscanner version 3
processes before you start the new version.

This might seem like a silly question but how do I do that?

 

[BIS]

sorry - having a bad day. pkill -9 mailscanner did it...

 

[jad]