RE: [cobalt-users] Bassi Mailscanner 3.21-1 & RAQ3 <Quick Question>

["Paul Shuttleworth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Sent: 21 November 2002 16:06
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> Subject: [cobalt-users] Bassi Mailscanner 3.21-1 & RAQ3 <Quick Question>
>
>
> I have Bassi's Mailscanner 3.21-1 for the RAQ3 installed (thank you very
> much Steve) and other than the initial time during installation, the
> "autoupdate" feature has never functioned (I only recieved a single email
> that one time after the update). *Please note that I assume the package is
> still functioning as I get "X-MailScanner: Found to be clean" in my email
> headers*
>
> I know this has been covered in the archive (and I have read as much as I
> can digest from said archive) and I know that Bassi is working on
> an update
> to said pakage (or so I gleaned from the archive). However beeing
> a newb and
> all to both Linux AND Cobalt, I like to see things dumbed down a
> little so I
> was looking for an archive meesage that states:
>
> "Hey, newbie, if you're RAQ3-Bassi-MailScannerRelease 3.21-1 is not
> auto-updating (or your not getting the email that says so
> anyways), you MUST
> manually update until a new package comes out. To do so, you do
> this:  blah
> blah blah"
>
> However, I never found it. So I wish to ask:
>
> Is the correct methodology for ensuring that the
> "RAQ3-Bassi-MailScannerRelease 3.21-1" package is using the
> latest "updates"
> from F-Prot as follows:
>
> 1. Telnet/ssh into Raq3 as root
>
> 2. Type in "/usr/local/f-prot/autoupdate" (minus the quotes) to
> execute the
> update to F-Prot from the f-prot directory itself assuming you left
> everything as default during installation.
>
> 3. The following responses fill the terminal display if everything is
> actually fucntioning regarding F-Prot:
>
> FTP address for retrieving files is ftp://eu-2.updates.f-prot.com/pub//
> F-Prot signature file update script
> There is a new version of SIGN.DEF, starting download.
> Download completed.
> Updated SIGN.DEF.
> There is a new version of SIGN2.DEF, starting download.
> Updated SIGN2.DEF.
> There is a new version of MACRO.DEF, starting download.
> Download completed.
> Updated MACRO.DEF.
> Update completed.
>
> At this stage would it be safe to say that the
> RAQ3-Bassi-MailScannerRelease
> 3.21-1 package is now using the latest virus definitions from
> F-Prot, or is
> there another step to go yet?
>
>
> Thanks for you patience...
>
> Marcel



Hi Marcel

well you could SSH into your Raq as root

cd /etc/cron.daily
pico mailscanner_update.cron

Type the following
perl /usr/local/f-prot/autoupdate

Hit ctrl-x
save the file

chmod 744 mailscanner_update.cron

This should then run the update script each morning at 4am local.
This will keep your box updated until steve gets round to updating the PKG.

This works on my RAQ4, it should be exactly the same on your RAQ3.

Hope this helps!!

Paul

PS
Is this simple enough ;-)