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

[Kenny Chauun]

Hi!

I am new to the list and facing exactly the same issue as this article.

In short, the problem is:
MailScanner cannot work with KAV 5's aveserver/aveclient component.

My investigation reveals that the reason being:
aveclient doesn't accept the "." argument of MailScanner as a wildcard for
all or directory.

Proof:
#aveclient -p/var/run/aveserver -s .
/tmp/. ERROR not a regular file

#aveclient -p/var/run/aveserver -s out.mail
out.mail OK

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
K

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:55:31 +0000, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>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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>>--
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>
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