Re: OpenBSD 2.9 and Sophos Antivirus ?

[Dennis Davis <ccsdhd@bath.ac.uk>]

>From: Alex Le Fevre <alex@schnarff.com>
>To: misc@openbsd.org
>Subject: Re: OpenBSD 2.9 and Sophos Antivirus ?
>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:21:15 GMT
>
>After following this discussion for a bit, I decided to apply the  
>offered patch and attempt to install the Linux-libc6 version. It   
>apparently worked, as install.sh gave no errors; however, when     
>I attempt to run sweep, I get nothing but the help message         
>specifying potential options. Initially I thought this was just    
>due to a misuse of options on my point, but I eliminated them      
>one-by-one until I simply ran the program with no options, which   
>still gave me the help message.                                    
>
>Any ideas why this might be happening? BTW, in case it matters,    
>I'm still on 2.8 (i386).                                           

You need to use the -ss argument to sweep to tell it *not* to be so
noisy.  Amavis calls sweep with the following arguments:

sweep -nb -f -all -rec -ss -sc -archive (directory name}

I found the Sophos software worked OK on OpenBSD2.8 using Linux
emulation.