icheckd vs. SAVI-Perl

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Robin M. wrote:

>I am testing sophos and initially I set it up to run as a daemon with the
>icheckd interface, but after reading the mailscanner docs it appears to
>suggest that not installing icheckd and compiling the Savi-Perl module
>instead. Are there any benefits to running sophos with SAVI-Perl rather
>than running icheckd.
>  
>

what do you mean is the function of icheckd ?


original reply from sophos in summer 2003
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Der ICHECKD - Intercheck-Daemon unter Unix entspricht dem Intercheck-Server
unter Windows! und ist nur für Non-Unix Workstations verwendbar!

Für Linux gibt es keinen Interchk-Client (On-Access Scanning). Nur
Sofortstart und mittels Cron-Job einen periodischen Scan!


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my free translation:
the ICHECKD - intercheck-daemon under unix is equivalent to the 
intercheck-server under windows! and is only usable for non-unix 
workstations!

there exist none intercheck-client for linux (on-access-scanning). only 
immediately-start or a periodically scan via cron-job.
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afaik the icheckd (unix) or intercheck-server (windows) is needed for 
automatically update of the windows-clients from the server if a new 
sweep-version or new ides are available via the central-installation 
(rollout-nomber in the sav.cfg)

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shrek-m