F-Prot Troubles

[Julian Field]

At 17:06 17/09/2003, you wrote:
>I've just installed MailScanner v4.23-11 and it seems to be working well
>with Spamassassin.  I've also installed F-Prot.  If I manually run a scan
>against a directory, F-Prot will detect viruii.  However, when I send a test
>virus through my mail server, F-Prot does not catch it.  I have set the
>following:
>
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:
>[much snippage]
>Virus Scanning = yes
>Virus Scanners = f-prot3

Assume you didn't intend that "3".

>Virus Scanner Timeout = 300
>
>virus.scanners.conf:
>f-prot          /usr/lib/MailScanner/f-prot-wrapper
>/usr/local/bin/f-prot

No, the path in virus.scanners.conf is the directory where it is installed
(usually stored in /usr/local/f-prot). For you, it should be /usr/local/bin.


>[root at atlas MailScanner]# which f-prot
>/usr/local/bin/f-prot
>
>Anything else I should be doing?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Christian
>
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