(Kaspersky 5) Wrapper Script does not seem to work.

[Julian Field]

At 17:17 04/02/2004, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I am having heavy troubles using Mailscanner with Kaspersky version 5.0.
>
>I want Mailscanner to start the client portion of kaspersky called
>aveclient in version 5. I modified the wrapper-script slightly, and it
>seems to work:
>
>This is what the wrapper looks like:
>
>===============================
>#!/bin/sh
>PackageDir=$1/bin
>shift
>Scanner=aveclient
>
>ScanOptions="-p /var/run/aveserver -s "
>
>if [ "x$1" = "x-IsItInstalled" ]; then
>  [ -x ${PackageDir}/$Scanner ] && exit 0
>  exit 1
>fi
>
>exec ${PackageDir}/$Scanner $ScanOptions "$@"
>
>===============================================
>
>
>when I start the wrapper-script like this: ./kavdaemonclient-wrapper
>/opt/kav/ /SampleVirus.exe
>
>i get:
>
>/SampleVirus.exe
>INFECTED
>LINFECTED I-Worm.Swen
>
>so I assume this works. Also the return code ist other than zero:
>  ./kavdaemonclient-wrapper /opt/kav/ /SampleVirus.exe > /dev/null && echo
> asfd
>
>returns nothing, as it shoud.
>
>The Problem is, that when Mailscanner starts this script, mailscanner never
>detects any virus, although it SURELY starts the wrapper script (i tried this
>with using a touch /tmp/asdf command just before the exec-part). Doesn't
>Mailscanner look at the return-code of the program?

No. That only tells it that it found a virus somewhere. It scans lots of
messages at once, and parses the output of the virus scanner.

>  Due to which criteria does
>mailscanner decide that the object is a virus? I just don't know a solution.
>
>Thank you for help!
>
>wogri
>
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