RE: [cobalt-users] f-prot and Mailscanner

["Matt Brown" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When I tried to install it today I got two errors.
>
> 1. The f-prot beta file does not seem to be available as it
> suggests in the
> FAQ. So I logged into the FTP site and download the linux version.

Thats probably due to the fact the Linux F-Prot package went from Beta to
commercial on 22nd March 2002.

>
> Installed and then installed mailscanner and made the changes.
> Also made the
> changes that are additional for the RaQ4 showing mqueue(x) and started
> mailscanner.
>
> It reported the same error as you got about mqueue(x) does not exist.
>
> If I change it to just mqueue then mail goes into the mqueue but
> never gets
> delivered on as sendmail is not looking at that directory for new
> files. How
> does one get the q1 - q4 to work?

Well I had the same problem, I changed the line from mqueue/q(x) to
mqueue/q1 which seems to work a treat.
(Wether its correct is another matter ...)

> Also in my sendmail files it is complaining about the f-prot
> software being
> commercial.
> Mar 26 02:39:54 cobr4sea3 mailscanner[8881]: Scanning 1 messages,
> 1006 bytes
> Mar 26 02:39:54 cobr4sea3 mailscanner[9084]: Commercial virus
> checker failed
> with real error: Can't run commercial checker f-prot
> ("/usr/local/f-prot/f-portwrapper"): No such file or directory at
> /usr/local/MailScanner/bin/sweep.pl line 347.

Time to buy a licence for it then .. however im still running the beta
version that I downloaded on 21st March 2002 wonder what will happen there
then .... only time will tell.

Regards

Matt Brown