what's this VC noise?

[Julian Field]

At 03:13 13/09/2002, you wrote:
>Edit sweep.pl and add "-nc" on the DisinfectionOptions of sophos. This
>will invert the default setting of sophos to ask for confirmation before
>disinfecting/deleting.

Note that MailScanner provides the "A" answer in response to the question
automatically already, so it won't be sitting waiting for a keypress.


>Raxie
>
>
>
>On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > At 20:07 12/09/2002, you wrote:
> > >Can anyone tell me why noise like this appears on the virtual console
> > >where I started mailscanner? It doesn't appear to be actually waiting for
> > >the ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll).
> >
> > It's noise from Sophos. I've tried stopping it, but it looks like they
> > output to /dev/tty or somewhere like that, which is pretty difficult to
> > stop happening.
> >
> > ># Proceed with disinfection of
> > >./g8C3OFpc026394/periodd.com ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll) ?Proceed with disinfection
> > >of ./g8C3RHpc026605/talent.com ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll) ?Proceed with
> > >disinfection of ./g8C3bSpc027353/continue.com ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll) ?
> >
> > --
> > 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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>     Ruel C. Bristol -=Raxie=-
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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