Configuring Avira Updater ------------------------ With Avira Updater you can update Avira software on your computers, using Avira update servers. The program can be configured either by editing the configuration file, or by using command line options. Before downloading and updating product files, the Updater reads the configuration from avupdate.conf. All parameters from avupdate.conf can be passed to the Updater via command line. For example: -parameter in avupdate.conf: temp-dir=/tmp -command line: avupdate.bin --temp-dir=/tmp The configuration parameters for the Updater are listed below. * General: --help Display help about the Updater options. Note: This option is available only for unix versions of avupdater. --version Display Updater version. Note: This option is available only for unix versions of avupdater. --config Contains the path to the configuration file. avupdate.bin --config=avupdate.conf The default value: avupdate.conf --quiet If is present, the updater will not log messages on screen. Note: This option is available only for unix versions of avupdater. The default value: false --show-progress Show download progress. Note: This option is available only for unix versions of avupdater. The default value: false * Directories and files: --temp-dir Temporary directory for downloading update files. avupdate.bin --temp-dir=/tmp The default value: avupdate --backup-dir Backup directory for the existing files, before updating. The default value: \avupdate_backup --install-dir Specifies the installation directory for updated product files. avupdate.bin --install-dir=/usr/lib/AntiVir --update-dir Specifies the location of engine, vdf and build.dat in order to get the needed informations for the user-agent string. If this parameter is not given, avupdater will use the path from "--install-dir" option. --key-dir Specifies the directory in which the updater should search for a valid key. --product-root The directory on the update server where the files for a product are to be found. --master-file Specifies the master.idx file. avupdate.bin --master-file=/idx/master.idx --local-master-file Specifies the full path to a local master file to be used instead the one from the install directory. --product-file To specify the idx product file. Example: avupdate.bin --product-file=/idx/mailgatebin.idx --add-var-pair Used to define variable and value pairs in the INFO file. Example: DESTINATION=%MY_INSTALL_DIR% In command line: avupdate.bin --add-var-pair=MY_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib/ --internet-srvs The list of Internet update servers. avupdate.bin --internet-srvs= http://dl1.pro.antivir.de, http://dl2.pro.antivir.de, http://dl3.pro.antivir.de --peak-handling-srvs Contains the servers used in case no internet server is available or if both '--ipv4-peak-server-limit' and '--ipv6-peak-server-limit' are reached. --ipv4-peak-server-limit If both '--ipv4-peak-server-limit' and '--ipv6-peak-server-limit' are reached the list of servers from '--peak-handling-srvs' will be used for update. If this limit is set 0 updater will try to update from all ipv4 servers ('--internet-srvs') before trying to update from '--peak-handling-srvs' list. The default value: 0 --ipv6-peak-server-limit If both '--ipv4-peak-server-limit' and '--ipv6-peak-server-limit' are reached the list of servers from '--peak-handling-srvs' will be used for update. If this limit is set 0 updater will try to update from all ipv6 servers ('--internet-srvs') before trying to update from '--peak-handling-srvs' list. The default value: 0 --product-info-file To specify the product info file. --local-product-info-file Used to specify a local product info file to be used instead the one from the server. * Update mode: --mirror Performs a mirror update(meaning no pre / post / unpost applications are executed) The default value: false --check-if-update-available When this option is set updater will not install any files. It will only check if an update is available. There are two situations: 1) When --skip-master-file is set, updater will download product.info files and it will check all local files against the online ones. It will also log the files that are dirty and must be updated. 2) When --skip-master-file is not set, updater will download only master.idx. It will check only local master.idx against the online one. If identical will return "Nothing to update". If not identical will return "Update is available" The default value: false --update-modules-list Specifies the modules that must be updated (comma-separated list). --no-check-md5 Don't check md5 of local files. The default value: false --skip-master-file Skip master file (if you want to mirror the entire structure, not only the changed files). The default value: false --skip-selfupdate Skip installing updater files. The default value: false --no-deltaupdate Specifies that the updater will not use the delta update feature. The default value: false --no-signature-check Specifies that the updater will not check if the files are signed. Note: Only uncompressed binary files are checked. The default value: true --check-product If this option is present, the updater will check the license. The default value: false --ext-program-timeout Timeout for waiting an executed pre / post / unpost application (in seconds). The default value: 1800 s --depend If this option is present, the updater will use the old depend functionality. Description: When in the product info file, module 1 depends on module 2, module 1 must get dirty when module 2 is dirty, meaning that pre / post applications of module 1 gets executed. The default value: false --ignore-srvs-list For updates from a share or internal http server the Updater must ignore the servers list present in the IDX file and download everything from inside the network and not from the Internet. The default value: false * Connection settings: --user-agent Specifies the user agent string which is reported to the http server. The default value: AntiVir-UpdateCP/ (;; AVE ; VDF ; ; ) Example: AntiVir-UpdateCP/0.0.21 (SELFUPDATE, VDF, AVE2, SAVAPI3; SAVAPI3-LINUX_GLIBC22-EN; AVE 8.1.1.23; VDF 7.0.6.157; EN; LINUX_GLIBC22_I386) --system-proxy Tells the updater to use system proxy settings. The default value: false --proxy-username Username for proxy authentication. --proxy-password Password for proxy authentication. --proxy-host The name of the proxy server. --proxy-port Proxy port. --username Username for accessing a shared folder. --password The password for accessing a shared folder. --connect-timeout Timeout for Internet connection (in seconds). The default value: 30 seconds --receive-timeout Timeout for receiving data (in seconds). The default value: 30 seconds --retries Number of retries. The default value: 1 --retry-timeout Timeout between retries (in seconds). * Notification emails: --mailer Specify the method for sending mails. Can have one of the following values: smtp - for using own smtp engine sendmail - for using sendmail binary The default value: smtp --sendmail-path When --mailer is set sendmail, this parameter specifies the local path of sendmail binary. On unix the default value is: /usr/sbin/sendmail. It also searches in /usr/lib/sendmail --sendmail-arguments If --mailer is set sendmail, this parameter specifies the arguments for running sendmail binary. On unix the default value is: -oem -oi --email-to Receiver of the notification emails, if --notify-when is not 0 (see below). The default value: root@localhost --email-from Sender of the notification emails, if --notify-when is not 0 (see below). The default value: root@localhost --notify-when To send email notifications to the address set with --email-to. This option can have one of four values: 0 - no email notifications are sent (default value), 1 - email notifications are sent in case of "successful update", "unsuccessful update", or "up to date". 2 - email notification only in case of "unsuccessful update". 3 - email notification only in case of "successful update". The default value: 0 --email-footer The default footer of the notification emails is: -- Avira AntiVir Copyright (c) 2010 by Avira GmbH. All rights reserved. It can be changed using --email-footer: avupdate.bin --email-to= --email-footer= --auth-method When set in avupdate.conf, the Updater requires the smtp login data: smtp-user and smtp-password (see bellow), in order to send email notifications to the address set with --email-to. The default value: false --smtp-user If notify-when is not 0 and auth-method is set in avupdate.conf, the Updater requires the smtp login data: smtp-user and smtp-password. --smtp-password If notify-when is not 0 and auth-method is set in avupdate.conf, the Updater requires the smtp login data: smtp-user and smtp-password. --smtp-server The smtp server for sending email notifications, if --notify-when is not 0. --smtp-port The smtp port for sending email notifications, if --notify-when is not 0. The default value: 25 --smtp-timeout Timeout for receiving data when connecting to a smtp server (in seconds). The default value: 30 seconds * Logfile: --log Specifies a different name of the logfile. The default name: avupdate.log Note: If this option is not present, a default logfile with the name 'avupdate.log' will be created in the same directory as the updater binary. --log-rotate Overwrite logfiles by rotation. For maintaining a log history, up to 10 recent logfiles will be kept. For example: avupdate.log.001, avupdate.log.002, avupdate.log.003, ..., avupdate.log.010, avupdate.log.001... The default value: false Note: This parameter is mutual exclusive with --log-append. If both parameters are present the --log-append behaviour will be ignored. --log-append Append to log file (By default, the log is overwritten). Note: This parameter is mutual exclusive with --log-rotate. --log-template Option to specify the format of the logfile. The default template used for logging is: ${DAY}/${MONTH}/${YEAR} ${HOUR}:${MINUTE}:${SECOND} ${FULLHOST}[${PID}]: ${SOURCE}: ${LEVEL}: ${MSG} where: ${DAY}/${MONTH}/${YEAR}- date format ${HOUR}, ${MINUTE}, ${SECOND}- time format ${FULLHOST}- hostname ${PID}- pid of the program generating the log ${LEVEL}- the message level, as set by the program ("DEBUG", "INFO", "MESSAGE", "WARNING", "ERROR", "FATAL", "MAX_LEVEL", "UNDEFINED") ${MSG}- the message sent to the log Example of log entry: 16/07/2008 12:34:04 abc-desktop [18428]: UPD: ERROR: Smtp engine returned error: Connection refused The user can specify only the desired information to be logged. For example: -in avupdate.conf: log-template=${MSG} -in the command line: avupdate.bin --log-template=${MSG} Avira Updater can return one of the following codes: 0 - successful update 1 - nothing to update -1 - unsuccessful update Example of a configuration file: internet-srvs=http://dl.antivir.de/update master-file=/idx/master.idx product-file=/idx/savapi3-linux_glibc22-en.idx install-dir=install temp-dir=/tmp/avira * Updating from IUM # Should replace here IUM_SERVER and IUM_PORT with the correct name and port of IUM server internet-srvs=http://IUM_SERVER:IUM_PORT/update master-file=/idx/master.idx product-file=/idx/savapi3-linux_glibc22-en.idx install-dir=install temp-dir=/tmp/avira ignore-srvs-list