On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:20:37PM +0100, Carlos Jorge Andrade wrote: > Hi, > > I'm reporting a problem that i had today with Qmail-Scanner. > > I was trying to run the latest Qmail-Scanner 1.24 with Sophie. > During the configure part of Qmail-Scanner, he tries to detect what > scanners i have installed. In that fase Qmail-Scanner reports 'Something > like sophie for Sophos detected' but complains about the install. > Running Sophie on debug mode(-d) I get several... > WARNING : Could not open dir > (/tmp/mkt_qs.3709-1098809216/../mkt_qs.1792-1098808165/../../../../../ > > and the Sophie process "loops forever" making the cpu usage go to 100%. >
This is a bug in sophie that has started to manifest itself on newer Linux systems - like Fedora Core 2. The author of sophie has said he's moving onto newer and better things, and no-one appears to be picking it up. I'd say the long-term future of sophie is in doubt :-( > Making a long story short... I had to change some syntax in the > configure script of Qmail-Scanner. Around line 666 in Qmail-Scanner > configure script there is a test made with Doesn't help. What about in the live environment where there may be an unpacked zip file creating 5 levels of subdirs? Q-S is not going to pass that file tree to sophie. Sophie no longer works :-( > Either you change the -f(file) to -s(dir) or you change $TMP_DIR to > $TMP_DIR/* and run the configure script again. - err "-s" points to the socket file - not a directory. > > I didn't made any debug, but that did the trick. I guess when you give a > directory to Sophie you have to had a trailing /* . Noticed that when > scanning a dir from the shell. That gets you past the configure checks - but it doesn't mean sophie is reliably useful on your system. It's a real pity - sophie (and trophie) worked really well... :-( -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
