Thanks, I will try the perl update script and see how it works.
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From: Message Sniffer Community
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 5:51 PM
To: Message Sniffer Community
Subject: [sniffer] Re: Snf2check.exe on FreeBSD
Hello Dan,
Monday, June 19, 2006, 5:30:15 PM, you wrote:
I'm using sniffer on FreeBSD, plugging into Spamassassin.
I am trying
to write a good autoupdate cron script that works as well on my
FreeBSD box as did the one I used to have on my Imail box. I can
download the Sniffer DB, but I can't use snf2check.exe in my cron
script. When I manually run the script logged in as root,
and it gets to the line:
/var/spool/snfilter/snf2check.exe /var/spool/snfilter/filename.snf
authcodexxx
The file checks out OK, however when it runs from cron (as root) it
always gets ERROR RULE AUTH. Does anyone have an autoupdate script
that is meant to run on a *nix-type system? Or does anyone know a
solution to my problem?
There is no reason I can think of for this not to work except
perhaps for a permissions problem. Error rule auth would
generally indicate that the file was corrupt, or that the
authentication string is incorrect.
All update scripts should use snf2check.exe before pressing
the new rulebase file into production or else you may cripple
your scanner with a bad file. (the SNF scanner does a less
comprehensive check to maintain speed).
All that said, on this page you can find PerlAutoUpdates and
a few others which might help:
http://kb.armresearch.com/index.php?title=Message_Sniffer.Tech
nicalDetails.SubmittedScripts
Best,
_M
--
Pete McNeil
Chief Scientist,
Arm Research Labs, LLC.
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