Re: Re: ERROR: sophie "Failed to initialize SAVI"

Michelle,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:56:32PM -0800, MDB wrote:
> I'm guessing by the lack of response that no one has a clue about this 
> error.
> 
> .\\ichelle
> 

Although I'm still using 3.89 on my production server, I've given it a
try on a spare Linux box, compiled Sophie 1.44 with Sophos 3.90, and
it worked flawlessly:

> ./sophie 
Initializing    : Grp* options (engine >= 2.14)
Initializing    : Sophos engine version 2.28
Initializing    : Sophos IDE version 3.90 (detects 99862 viruses)
Socket path     : /var/amavis/sophie.sock
Port            : 4009
Temporary dir   : /tmp
Timeout         : 300 seconds
Running as user : nobody
Socket group    : nobody
Max processes   : 20
PID file        : /var/amavis/sophie.pid
Sophie version  : 1.44

(yes I know, run as "nobody" is a poor choice, that was just for a
quick test!)

So it seems that 3.90 hasn't broken Sophie 1.44 on a general basis.
There could be someting happening on FreeBSD.
My only FreeBSD box here is an old DEC Alphastation, so I can't try.

If you can do some C programming, I'd look  into sophie_init.c and try
to add code that digs out an error code from the API and display it.
Shouldn't be that difficult, but I don't have time for this now.

Good luck,
_Alain_

> 
> >Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:31:14 -0800 (PST)
> >From: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: [vtools] ERROR:  sophie "Failed to initialize SAVI"
> >
> >I'm running Sophie 1.44 on a FreeBSD 4.9 server, and it has been
> >working flawlessly with several libsavi versions, the most recent being
> >3.86.  However, when I upgraded to 3.90, I get this error when I try to
> >start Sophie:
> >
> >   ERROR:  sophie "Failed to initialize SAVI"
> >
> >And of course, Sophie fails to start.  If I revert to the 3.86 version
> >virus definition ide and vdl files in /usr/local/sav/, while retaining the
> >3.90 libsavi set, Sophie starts without a single complaint, so the problem
> >doesn't seem to be in the new libsavi itself.  I'm wondering why Sophie
> >1.44 is having a problem all of a sudden, and if upgrading Sophie to
> >3.04rc2 would fix it.
> >
> >Hope someone has some ideas.
> >
> >.\\ichelle
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