Any success getting vexira running with mailscanner

Brent Bolin brentbolin at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 20 20:46:02 IST 2004


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>Yes, no problem.
>Virus.scanners.conf says
>vexira          /usr/lib/MailScanner/vexira-wrapper     /usr/lib/Vexira
>and it detects all sorts of eicar just fine.
>
>If you set
>         Debug = yes
>what output do you get, and what appears in the logs?
>
>At 19:59 20/08/2004, you wrote:
>>Julian,
>>
>>Have you had any luck getting vexira to run ?
>>
>>Just some more info.
>>
>>I can fire up a bunch of blank messages from a remote location -
>>
>>sendmail -v foobar at where_mailscanner.com
>>
>>If I run top on the mailscanner machine I can see vexira  fireing up, so 
>>it
>>would appear its talking to vexira.
>>
>>However it dosn't detect viruses(eicar)

debug output here, dosen't appear to see any files -

Starting MailScanner...
In Debugging mode, not forking...
SA bayes lock is /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
Bayes lock is at /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock
Vexira Antivirus / FreeBSD Version 2.2.1-14
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Central Command, Inc. and/or its suppliers.
Portions copyright (C) 1996-2004 H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH.
All rights reserved.

Loading /usr/lib/Vexira/vexira.vdf ...

VDF version: 6.27.0.21 created 19 Aug 2004

Vexira Antivirus license: 2003000000 for x, Inc.

checking drive/path (list): .

------ scan results ------
    directories:      1
  scanned files:      0
         alerts:      0
     suspicious:      0
      scan time: 00:00:01
--------------------------
Thank you for using Vexira Antivirus!
Stopping now as you are debugging me.


Here is the tail of the log file -

New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 1371 bytes
mail MailScanner[40289]: Archived message i7KJSW3k040326 to mbox file 
/var/spool/MailScanner/archive
Saved archive copies of i7KJSW3k040326
MCP Checks completed at 1371 bytes per second
Spam Checks: Starting
mail MailScanner[40289]: Message i7KJSW3k040326 from 127.0.0.1 
(brent at x.x.com) to
x.x.com is not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6, autolearn=not spam)
mail MailScanner[40289]: Spam Checks completed at 1371 bytes per second
mail MailScanner[40289]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
mail MailScanner[40289]: Filename Checks: Allowing i7KJSW3k040326 eicar.com 
(no rule matched)
mail MailScanner[40289]: Virus Scanning completed at 1371 bytes per second
mail MailScanner[40289]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
mail MailScanner[40289]: Virus Processing completed at 1371 bytes per second
mail MailScanner[40289]: Disinfection completed at 1371 bytes per second
mail MailScanner[40289]: Batch completed at 685 bytes per second (1371 / 2)
mail MailScanner[40289]: MailScanner child dying of old age
mail sendmail[40335]: i7KJSW3k040326: to=<jack at x.x.com>, 
ctladdr=<brent at x.x.com>
(3129/3129), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=120832, 
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

I've tried to remove time/date dirt in maillog so this posts better

It dosn't look like vexira sees any files.

Also here is my virus.scanners.conf

vexira    /usr/local/libexec/MailScanner/vexira-wrapper /usr/lib/Vexira


btb

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