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Disable loading of talpa modules

gossamer

Hi,

I have sophos antivirus for linux running on fedora20 and I'm not using on-access scanning so the talpa modules apparently aren't necessary.

However, I'm now receiving frequent emails that "Unable to load Talpa modules". I'd like to disable the loading of the modules.

I'm also curious why it's unable to load, in case I do wish to do on-access scanning? I've run savupdate so I have the latest modules and virus patterns. How do I find out the current version of talpa that I have installed?

Thanks so much.

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    Use the EnableOnStart savconfig option to control whether on-access is started when savd starts.

    /opt/sophos-av/log/talpaselect.log includes the information from trying to build Talpa, that might indicate why building it failed. The most recent attempt will be at the bottom.

    You can also refer to https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/13503.aspx which lists some of the things required to build Talpa locally.

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    I recalled from a previous question that talpa above version 9.* support the current fedora20 kernel with the current updates by just running savupdate. Is that not the case?

    I was previously trying to compile it and it fails and reported it here:
    /search?q= 56004

    I'm sorry for the confusion. Hopefully you help me understand the current level of support for talpa on fedora20, whether compiled by source or downloaded with latest updates.

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    Talpa 1.18.4 will always fail as it doesn't support kernels as recent as Fedora 20's kernel.

    Talpa 1.18.6 works on the vanilla 3.17 kernel, but that doesn't mean it will work with Fedora's 3.17 kernel since Redhat may have included additional patches. However there are other reasons why Talpa might fail to compile that would be individual to your machine, such as missing gcc/make/kernel headers.

    Fedora changes too rapidly for Sophos to produce pre-compiled Talpa Binary Packs for its kernels, so only local compilation is available. If you want a supported platform I would suggest CentOS would be a better choice.

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