We have a subscription to Sophos antivirus for our Windows 98 workstations and the SuSE 9.1 Linux server. So far, the workstations do on access protection using intercheck, the server uses amavisd-new to check incoming and outgoing emails for spam and virii, the server downloads new virus definitions twice a day and checks for viruses on the whole filesystem overnight. I came across a link to samba-vscan which appears to run server based on access checking of samba shares, and in fact is already installed on our server (probably alongside Samba when I set it up). Sounds useful, belt and braces etc. To get samba-vscan working with the Sophos library and definitions, it apparently needs to have the sophie daemon running. Sophie isn't a Suse package so I've dowloaded the source, but can't get past the configure script, which says it cant find the savilib library, although the library is, in fact, where sophie configure is looking for it. Anyone else any experience with sophos under linux, or more importantly sophie under suse 9.1? Any suggestions folks? I'm also interested in squid-vscan which does a similar thing with webcontent via the cache. Anyone any experience with this? -- Miles Berry Deputy Head St Ives School Haslemere www.stiveshaslemere.com
--- Miles Berry
Sophie isn't a Suse package so I've dowloaded the source, but can't get past the configure script, which says it cant find the savilib library, although the library is, in fact, where sophie configure is looking for it.
Sometimes (well, usually), when you run ./configure -- it builds up a cache of what it found last time. If, however, ./configure bombed out with an error, which you then subsequently fixed, it's likely that the answer from last time round is still cached. Hence: rm ./config.cache && ./configure --whatever --options That may or maynot work, of course -- it depends on how the project was built. If you still get that error, then it is either that you don't have the *devel package installed for the said library, or the error isn't with the library at all. In fact, sending us the "config.log" file would be of help -- upload it to a webserver if you can. Also, I'd be interesting in cross-referencing that file with the output produced from: ./configure > ./configure.errlog 2>&1 i.e., the configure.errlog file that is produced. If you send those two things, perhaps we can work out what's not working. HTH, -- Thomas Adam Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Miles Berry wrote:
Anyone else any experience with sophos under linux, or more importantly sophie under suse 9.1? Any suggestions folks?
You can find the spec file that we use to build the sophie package at http://www.fensystems.co.uk/downloads/ingredients/sophie.spec Any required patches can be found in the same directory. You might also be interested in our "mysophobia" package, which provides the equivalent of Sophos Enterprise Manager for Linux: it will download the latest software for whichever platforms you specify, together with any necessary .ide files. For Windows, it creates a directory that can be your Sophos CID; for Linux, it builds RPMs for sophos, libsavi etc and provides a script "sav-update" that can be run to update a Linux machine from these RPMs (and the .ide files). It will even send a SIGHUP to sophie to notify it of new .ide files, or restart sophie if a new version of libsavi is installed. It's GPL software; if you want it, grab the tarball from http://www.fensystems.co.uk/downloads/ingredients/mysophobia-1.1.tar.bz2 Any problems, let me know. It's tested under Mandrake, but there will probably be small idiosyncrasies that need tweaking to get it to run under SuSE. Michael
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