Rav Anti Virus

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Aug 5 07:07:41 IST 2003


At 06:54 05/08/2003, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have been trying to use mailscanner with Rav Antivirus but there seems to be
>a problem.
>
>Mandrake Linux 9.1
>MailScanner version 4.22-5
>Rav Scan engine 8.11
>
>I have command antivirus installed and it works as expected.  But when I put
>rav as the only virus scanner, MailScanner does not pick up infected files.

Do you get anything in the logs? If so, what?

>If I run ravav from the command line, it does detect the infections.  It
>seems to be a problem with the return code, but I am quite lost trying to
>trace it down.

Did you install RAV in its default location? If not, you will need to tell
MailScanner the path in /usr/lib/MailScanner/rav-wrapper and
/usr/lib/MailScanner/rav-autoupdate.

>So, has anyone else experienced this?  I looked through the archives but
>nothing came up.
>
>Also, how can I debug a little more.  If I turn on debug mode, it only scans
>one batch and exits, but I don't see any extra reporting in the log files.
>
>Any suggestions would be great.
>
>--
>Regards
>
>Joseph Watson

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