Re: [cobalt-users] mailscanner odd messages

["Steve Bassi" <steve@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorge Ceballos" <jorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 5:03 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] mailscanner odd messages


>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm using Bassi's MailScanner with F-Prot in a RaQ4i. (I know its should
be
> upgraded but haven't had the time to do it). F-prot's virus and macros
> definitions are upgraded manually twice or so a week (using ./autoupdate)
> and since early this week we are getting the following messages in the
> maillog, still it seems to work fine as it keeps catching viruses.
> Any idea how to correct or stop this?
>
> Sep 21 10:45:41 www mailscanner[10256]: Either you've found a bug in
> MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has changed!
> F-Prot said this "Search: .". Please mail the author of MailScanner
>
> Sep 21 10:45:41 www mailscanner[10256]: Either you've found a bug in
> MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has changed!
> F-Prot said this "Switches: -ARCHIVE -OLD". Please mail the author of
> MailScanner
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jorge Ceballos

Jorge,

You need to upgrade to the new f-prot,  and you will need a revised sweep.pl
file for it to work with mailscanner.

http://www.raqateers.com/downloads/sweep.doc

Download that and rename it to sweep.pl and backup and replace the existing
sweep.pl file

Backup the old f-prot directory and install the new f-prot making sure you
copy the file f-protwrapper to the new f-prot directory.

Finally, remove autoupdate  from /etc/cron.daily/ and replace it with
"check-updates.pl" from the f-prot tools directory.

Restart Mailscanner ...  /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner restart

Thats it. If you get stuck or I havent explained that too well .. let me
know

I believe there are "how to's" out there to upgrade mailscanner to the
latest version and, it may be worth doing that to.

Finally if you keep the mailscanner version3 , and you have not updated the
/etc/rc.d/inet.d/mailscanner script
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2003-February/086407.html
for info.


Rgds


Bassi