Commercial virus checker failed ...

[Mike Rylander]

On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:10, Christopher Hicks wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Mike Rylander wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 07:21, Christopher Hicks wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Nick Phillips wrote:
> > > > Which would be Bad.
> > >
> > > Ah.  Why not make "Virus Scanner" comma-delimited as Julian
> > > proposed and replace Sweep with
> > >         Sweep Sophos = /some/path/to/wrapper
> > >         Sweep Mcafee = /some/path/to/wrapper
> > >         Sweep Fprot = /some/path/to/wrapper
> > >         ...
> > > ?
> >
> > Or rather
> >
> >    Sweep = f-prot, /some/path/to/wrapper
> >    Sweep = sophos, /another/path/to/wrapper
> >    Sweep = mcafee, /some/other/path/to/wrapper
>
> But that conflicts with the current Sweep config variable which would give
> folks the opportunity to set it the old way thinking nothing was changed.
> From what I can recall, there aren't any config parameters that are
> repeatedable currently, so the config reader may puke on it too.

Not necessarily... image this code...

if (/\s*Virus Scanner\s*=\s*(\S+)/) {
        $Config::VirusScanner = $1;  #  ... I dont know the real variable name ...
}

 if (/\s*Sweep\s*=\s*(\S+),\s*(\S*)\s*$/) {
        $Config::VirusScanner = $1;  #  ... I dont know the real variable name ...
        $Config::Sweep = $2;            #  ... again ...
} elsif (/\s*Sweep\s*=\s*(\S+) && $Config::VirusScanner) {
        $Config::Sweep = $2;
}


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Mike Rylander
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Incanta, Inc.
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