Norman (nvcc) does not scan

[Julian Field]

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By the way, run it from a directory with a virus in it. Otherwise it
might produce no output at all.

Julian Field wrote:

> What happens when you do
> /usr/bin/nvcc -c -sb: 1 -s -u .
>
> Martin Wozenilek wrote:
>
>> On my system nvcc is in /usr/bin. So I've changed your example. Now to
>> your question: the command line gives no output. The norman log is not
>> created ...
>>
>>     ----- Originalnachricht -----
>>     *Betreff: *Re: Norman (nvcc) does not scan
>>     *Von:  *Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>>     *An: *<MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>>     *Datum: *28-12-2004 19:27
>>
>>
>>     What does
>>     cd /tmp
>>     /usr/lib/MailScanner/norman-wrapper /usr/sbin -c -sb: 1 -s -u .
>>     produce? (Don't forget the '.' on the end of the command)
>>
>>
>>     Martin Wozenilek wrote:
>>
>>     > Yes, exactly the same on my site ... I'm not a programmer ... but
>>     > maybe I can find something in the perl code.
>>     > Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe this is FedoraCore2
>>     specific?
>>     >
>>     > Regards,
>>     >
>>     > --
>>     > Martin Wozenilek
>>     > Am Langberg 91a
>>     > 21033 Hamburg
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>>     >
>>     >
>>     > ----- Originalnachricht -----
>>     > *Betreff: *Re: Norman (nvcc) does not scan
>>     > *Von: *John Lee <john at PUREMESSAGE.CO.UK>
>>     > *An: *<MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>>     > *Datum: *28-12-2004 17:42
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:34:00 +0000, Martin Wozenilek
>>     > <mail at WOZENILEK.DE> wrote:
>>     >
>>     > >Hi!
>>     > >
>>     > >I'm using mailscanner-4.36.4-1 and nvc-5.70.04-0. When i avtivate
>>     > the norman
>>     > >scanner in the config file the eicar testfile is detectet by all
>>     > my virus
>>     > >scanners, but not by nvcc. The wrapper works perfect .... mmmh
>> ....
>>     > >
>>     > >Any ideas? Thanks!
>>     > >
>>     > >Martin
>>     > >
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>>     > Hi Martin,
>>     >
>>     > I'm using mailscanner-4.36.4-1 and nvc-5.70.04-0 on Fedora Core2
>>     > and again
>>     > NVCC fails to be called from the norman-wrapper.
>>     > My other scanners F-prot,Bitdefender...all pick-up the Eicar test
>>     > -yet no
>>     > sign of Norman scanner being called when examing the sys
>>     > (mail)/norman logs.
>>     >
>>     > Both NVCC and norman-wrapper work fine from the command shell.
>>     >
>>     > I've created a new norman-wrapper to simply write some text to a
>>     > file - no
>>     > jo y,so I'm guessing it is an issue with mailscanner itself.
>>     >
>>     > I'll keep investigating.
>>     >
>>     > Regards
>>     >
>>     > John
>

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