Currently running Sophos 9.11.1 for RHEL5 (Linux) and want to know what directory the definition files (.ide) are kept?

Hello Gary,

if Sophos has been installed to /opt/sophos-av/ (which is the default be can be changed) this is where you should find the individual .ides and the libraries (.vdb). BTW: savscan -v will list the additional data files (ides) it uses  And - who gave you this list?

Christian

Hi Christian,

I did install Sophos to the default /opt/sophos-av/ directory, but the .ide files should show up in the /opt/sophos-av/lib/sav/ directory. They aren't there. I should tell you how I am having to update to the new version 9.11.1. Imagine for a moment you are sitting at the client machine and it has no internet and it is not connected to a Sophos server of any kind. All you have is the sav-linux-9-i386.tgz file that you downloaded from the Sophos website prior to arriving at the customer’s site. This .tgz file is the updated 9.11.1 package. Now, I follow what may be an incomplete set of steps below:

UNINSTALL/REINSTALL SOPHOS
1. As root:# cd /opt/sophos-av/
     # ./uninstall.sh     (y)
     # cd /home/acs/tmp
     # tar zxpfv <sophos filename.tgz>
     # cd sophos-av/
     # ./install.sh
        - accept license agreement (Y)
        - Where do you want to install sophos? Accept default [/opt/sophos-av]
        - enable on-access scanning (Y)
        - auto-updating (n)
        - login = admin
        - password = acsacs
        - auto-update (n)

Then I check to see that savd is running and I check the new version with /opt/sophos-av/bin/savdstatus --version. Is something missing? Are the .ides included in the .tgz file?

Best regards,

Gary

Hi Christian,

I did install Sophos to the default /opt/sophos-av/ directory, but the .ide files should show up in the /opt/sophos-av/lib/sav/ directory. They aren't there. I should tell you how I am having to update to the new version 9.11.1. Imagine for a moment you are sitting at the client machine and it has no internet and it is not connected to a Sophos server of any kind. All you have is the sav-linux-9-i386.tgz file that you downloaded from the Sophos website prior to arriving at the customer’s site. This .tgz file is the updated 9.11.1 package. Now, I follow what may be an incomplete set of steps below:

UNINSTALL/REINSTALL SOPHOS
1. As root:# cd /opt/sophos-av/
     # ./uninstall.sh     (y)
     # cd /home/acs/tmp
     # tar zxpfv <sophos filename.tgz>
     # cd sophos-av/
     # ./install.sh
        - accept license agreement (Y)
        - Where do you want to install sophos? Accept default [/opt/sophos-av]
        - enable on-access scanning (Y)
        - auto-updating (n)
        - login = admin
        - password = acsacs
        - auto-update (n)

Then I check to see that savd is running and I check the new version with /opt/sophos-av/bin/savdstatus --version. Is something missing? Are the .ides included in the .tgz file?

Best regards,

Gary

Hello Gary,

I see. The packages from the download contain the libraries (VDB) but not the supplemental IDEs. Please see this thread on how to update with the latest data (and update the libraries and software as well - so no need to uninstall or download/transfer the 400MB+ package).

Christian