ESET MAIL SECURITY Installation Manual page 10

This product is distributed as a binary file:
esets.i386.ext.bin
where 'ext' is a Linux/BSD/Solaris OS distribution dependent suffix, i.e. 'deb' for Debian, 'rpm'
for RedHat and SuSE, 'tgz' for other Linux OS distributions, 'fbs5.tgz' for FreeBSD 5.xx, 'fbs6.tgz' for
FreeBSD 6.xx, 'nbs4.tgz' for NetBSD 4.xx and 'sol10.pkg.gz' for Solaris 10.
Note that the Linux RSR binary file format is:
esets-rsr.i386.rpm.bin
In order to install or update the product, use statement:
sh ./esets.i386.ext.bin
resp. for Linux RSR variation of the product, use statement:
sh ./esets-rsr.i386.rpm.bin
As a result the product's User License Acceptance Agreement is shown. Once you have
confirmed the Acceptance Agreement, the installation package is placed into the current
working directory and relevant information regarding the package's installation, un-installation
or update is printed into terminal.
Once the package is installed and the main ESETS service is running, in Linux OS you can
check its operation by using command:
ps -C esets_daemon
In case of BSD OS you can use a command:
ps -ax | grep esets_daemon
In case of Solaris you can use a command:
ps -A | grep esets_daemon
You will see the following (or similar) message on return:
PID TTY
2226 ?
2229 ?
where at least two ESETS daemon processes running in the background have to be present.
One of the processes is so-called process and threads manager of the system. The other serves
as ESETS scanning process.
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TIME CMD
00:00:00 esets_daemon
00:00:00 esets_daemon
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