rav not scanning archives by default

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Feb 15 14:20:19 GMT 2003


See the "rav question" thread.

At 08:07 15/02/2003, you wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > At 21:27 09/02/2003, you wrote:
> > >On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> > >
> > > > MailScanner runs rav with the following parameters
> > > >          --all --mail --archive
> > > > which I believe will turn the archive scanning on.
> > >
> > >Julian,
> > >
> > >is that defined somewhere else than in /usr/lib/MailScanner/rav-wrapper ?
> >
> > It's in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm.
>
>Hmm,
>
>looks like I have more problems then... I was wrong in the first place,
>the .com-files were not scanned too, they were only rejected because of
>filetype rules.
>I changed them, allowing .com and .exe, but still rav does not scan them.
>If I turn debugging on, I get
>Feb 15 09:00:25 mail MailScanner[4678]: Commencing scanning by rav...
>Feb 15 09:00:26 mail MailScanner[4678]: Completed scanning by rav
>
>but it looks like /usr/lib/MailScanner never gets executed at all.
>That's really strange, f-prot and/or clamav are still working great, but
>no success with rav on my side so far and this is the AV package I have
>opted for.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Steffan

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