trend mircro with MailScanner

Nerijus Baliunas nerijus at USERS.SOURCEFORGE.NET
Fri Aug 8 14:46:12 IST 2003


On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:11:32 +0100 Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

> >I've just had an idea - why not to transfer all configurable paths from
> >antivir-wrappers (PackageDir and prog) to virus.scanners.conf?
> >Then for antivir it looked like:
> >antivir         /usr/lib/MailScanner/antivir-wrapper    /usr/lib/AntiVir
> >prog=antivir
> >or
> >antivir         /usr/lib/MailScanner/antivir-wrapper
> >PackageDir=/usr/lib/AntiVir prog=antivir
>
> Not a bad idea, but let me think about possible consequences of upgrading
> systems where people have already modified some of the default wrappers to
> handle their own paths....

Only one time change, but in the future it will be easier in exactly such cases -
people will modify only config file (virus.scanners.conf) which is not upgraded
when upgrading rpm, and thus preserving changes the user made, and all
wrappers can be safely upgraded.

Regards,
Nerijus



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