Clamav, Sophos, Mailscanner on FreeBSD

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 20 October 2003 11:36 am, Thierry wrote:

> > >$ vi /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf
> > >
> > >
> > >$ /usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper /path/to/virus/*
> > >$ /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-wrapper /path/to/virus/*
> >
> > In the most recent version(s?) the first parameter to the -wrapper and
> > -autoupdate script is the path to the virus scanner's installation
> > directory. So you would need to do
> > /usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper /usr/local/Sophos /path/to/virus
> > /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-wrapper /usr/local/f-prot /path/to/virus
>
> So thx a lot, i did what you told me to do, but what do you mean by
> /path/to/virus ?? Do you mean path to the siganture of virus ? Like
> /usr/local/sav for sophos ??

/path/to/virus points to wherever the files which you want to check for
possible virus content are.

So if you want to scan the files in /home/user/suspect to see whether they
contain any viruses, that is the path you would substitute for /path/to/virus

Antony.

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