Simon Bryan wrote:
I am trying to get SOPHOS to update automatically on my linux servers as well as all the MS servers and workstations, in fact the MS ones all work nicely - updated every four hours.
The instructions for doing this in Linux are given below, can anyone tell me what they mean by a 'shared area' and how that ssh command is supposed to work?...and what's a 'trust relationship' in Linux?
Cheers SImon
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If you have multiple, networked Unix computers, you may want to install and update Sophos Anti-Virus from a central directory, rather than carrying out installation at each computer separately. This procedure assumes that there is a trust relationship between the computers. 1. On one Unix computer, set up a shared area that is available to all the other computers.
Probably NFS share
2. Untar the Sophos Anti-Virus for Unix distribution archive or archives to this shared area. If you have computers on your network that use more than one Unix operating system (e.g. Linux and FreeBSD), untar the distribution archive for each system into a separate directory. 3. Use ssh to run the install.sh script on every connected Unix computer, from the shared area. For example, enter ssh -l [username] [hostname] / .install.sh where [username] is your user ID and [hostname] is the computer on which you want to install Sophos Anti-Virus. In each case, ensure that you run install.sh from the correct set of distribution files for that computer?s operating system. On older Unix computers, ssh may not be available. You can use rsh instead, though it is less secure. Step 3 can be put into a script which is run from one of your Unix computers.
The ssh command logs on to a remote computer and executes a given command (at least that's what the given syntax of the ssh command does.
I've found Sophos phone support pretty good - and they even talk Linux (or at least I've spoken to someone who does).
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