----- Original Message ----- From: "Joey Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:03 AM Subject: [Declude.Virus] F-Prot Updater timing out?
> I'm running Declude 1.81 with F-Prot. It's on my NT 4.0 mail server, which > is one of five servers we have, running on a Hawking Technology > KVM. Screen saver set to go on after 5 minutes, but no hibernation or > standby. I have F-Prot set to look for updates hourly...and lately I'll > check the mail server and find this: > --- > Updater - An Error Occurred > Failed to retrieve information about available updates. > System Error - the operation timed out. > > Please check if your internet connection is working and try again. > --- > This seems to happen when the KVM is set to another server (shouldn't even > affect it at all) and the mail server goes without human contact for a > while. If I'm sitting at the mail server doing work, I'll see the updater > popup on the screen and do its thing. This concerns me. Sometimes I'll > check the server and see that message, then manually go in and check for > F-Prot updates, and there will be some available for download. What if I > was out for the week? Who knows what would get through in that amount of > time... > > Any ideas as to what this could be? There are no f-prot errors in the > Event Viewer, and no connection lapses.... Disable the F-Prot updater and use one of the command line update scripts that can be found on the Declude site. Then you can schedule the updates with the Task Scheduler and not have to keep the server logged on all of the time. We have no problem get our updates this way. Bill --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
