Re: [cobalt-users] Bassi Mailscanner & F-Prot

["Richard Donahue" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
>
> I'm running two Cobalt RaQ4i servers with the Bassi Mailscanner.  I first
> noticed yesterday that the f-prot virus definitions were not being updated
> correctly.  When I try to run the f-prot-update script I receive the
> following error:
>
> FTP address for retrieving files is ftp://us-1.updates.f-prot.com/pub/
> F-Prot signature file update script
> There is a new version of SIGN.DEF, starting download.
> Download completed.
> Could not find correct version of SIGN.DEF, exiting., Bad file descriptor
at
> ./f-prot-update line 283, <TEMPFILE> line 2.
>
> It seems that even though the file is downloaded it isn't being updated
> because a) if I try to run the command again it downloads it once more
> instead of telling me the definitions are up to date (like it used to),
and
> b) viruses that should be halted in the new definitions are sneaking
through
> my mail server.
>
> I searched around and found someone had posted this error a few years ago
on
> this list.  It was suggested that perhaps Bassi needed to change the
update
> script?
>
> Has anyone else had this problem with the update script of late? Any ideas
> on what's going on?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>

I beleive your F-Prot needs updated. I'm pretty sure the info is in the
archives.

Rich
EBS