Console Output

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Oct 25 15:28:03 IST 2002


At 14:56 25/10/2002, you wrote:
>Is it normal for MailScanner to throw output to the console? I was just in
>SSH, and this popped up on my screen:
>
>Content Checks: Detected Microsoft-specific exploits in g9PDc8L22364 at
>/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepContent.pm line 110
>
>I am running the latest release...

The "MailScanner::Log::WarnLog" function does produce some STDERR output.
In case you get any Warnings at startup, I thought it was best to print
them on STDERR as well as log them, otherwise you might not see complaints
about conf file syntax errors and stuff like that.
--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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