Re: Sophie and Sophos 4.0x

Alan Thew <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:41:12 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:13 , Joshua Goodall <[email protected]> said:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:43:55AM +0000, Chris Wakelin wrote:
>> Anybody else having problems with Sophie and Sophos 4.0x? I find when I
>> HUP Sophie, it seems to get stuck (I get a line "NOTICE : Reloading
>> virus patterns/engine" but no corresponding "NOTICE : Virus
>> patterns/engine reloaded").
>
> Same symptom observed with 3.04rc2 and SAVi 4.01 on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE.
> Since this has happened before, I'm using kill/restart in Sophie update
> scripts anyway.

I had a problem (like this) with a hang but this was apparently due to 
using the libc6.glibc2.2 version rather than libc6 of sophos for Linux.
The libc.glibc22 version works with a later release of my Linux distro.

Alan Thew