On 9/29/05, Mark Martinec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JC,
>
> > I posted this to the SA ML and they suggested me to post here, so:
>
> It is most likely that the 'Checksum error' part is genuine and the
> 'Inappropriate ioctl for device' part of the message is bogus.
>
> For all executables the subroutine do_executable tries the
> following decoders in turn: unzip, unrar, lha - in an attempt
> to decode even self-extracting executables. In most cases
> it turns out the executable is a plain executable, not a
> SFX archive, so all three attempts fail because the files
> is not sfx zip, nor sfx rar, and nor sfx lha archive.
>
> These decoding attempt can provoke a warning from decoders,
> which complain the given file is not their type of archive
> - and rightfully they may complain. So this is all normal
> and part of the design. It has always been like that,
> since early days of AMaViS.
>
>   Mark
>

Thanks for your response, just for the record, I've performed an
upgrade to amavisd-new 2.3.3 and Perl-Compress-Zlib-1.37 and this
warning message has dissapeared.

Best regards,
Jorge.


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