Rav bug fix MISSING in beta 4.23-5?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Aug 21 10:33:23 IST 2003


It's a bunch of permissions problems.

         chmod a+r /dev/console
         cd /usr/local/rav8
         chmod -R go+rX .
         chmod a+rx rave bin pixmaps rc

I'll add these to the rav-autoupdate so it gets fixed before you have to
worry about it.

At 05:15 21/08/2003, you wrote:
>On Monday August 18 2003 04:45 pm, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > I've just tested it with the latest beta release of MailScanner and it
> > detected 3 viruses in a message just fine. Are you still having problems?
> > If so, please do "ls -l /usr/lib/MailScanner" and "ls -l
> > /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner" and "ls -lR /usr/local/rav8".
> >
>
>I believe I have found the problem that is causing Rav Antivirus to not work
>with MailScanner on Mandrake 9.1.  It seems to be a permission problem.  You
>have to be root to run Rav.  A unprivileged user is simply returned to the
>command line with no output from Rav.  With no output, it looks just like a
>clean message to MailScanner.
>
>Now I can't figure out why there is a permission problem on mandrake??  Maybe
>someone can help me with this?
>
>--
>Regards
>
>Joseph Watson

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