F-Prot errors

[Julian Field]

Apply this patch to /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm :

--- /root/v4/mailscanner/mailscanner/bin/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm    Wed
Mar 26 21:47:01 2003
+++ SweepViruses.pm     Thu Mar 27 19:58:26 2003
@@ -992,16 +992,19 @@
    my($report, $infected, $dot, $id, $part, $virus, @rest);
    my($logout);

-  #print STDERR $line;
+  #print STDERR "$fprot_InCruft $line";

    chomp $line;

    # Look for the "Program version: 4...." line which shows we are running
    # version 4 and therefore have different headers at the start of the
    # scan output.
-  if ($fprot_InCruft==-2 && $line =~ /program\s+version:\s*4/i) {
-    $fprot_InCruft -= 1;
-    return 0;
+  if ($fprot_InCruft==-2) {
+    my $version = $1 if $line =~ /program\s+version:\s*([\d.]+)/i;
+    if ($version > 3.12) {
+      $fprot_InCruft -= 1;
+      return 0;
+    }
    }c
    return 0 if $fprot_InCruft > 0; # Return if we are still in headers
    # One header paragraph has finished, count it

I will put this code in the next release.

At 16:39 27/03/2003, you wrote:
>Trying to setup F-Prot for evaluation w/ MailScanner and got this error:
>
>Either you've found a bug in MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or
>F-Prot's output format has changed! F-Prot said
>this "Switches: -ARCHIVE -OLD". Please mail the author of MailScanner
>
>The file I loaded was  fp-linux-eb-3.13-0.i386.rpm
>
>I followed the notes in the FAQ
>
>
>I'm using MS 4.13-3 on a RH 7.2 box.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>Matthew

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