ClamAV + MailScanner

Spicer, Kevin Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK
Mon Mar 22 08:47:46 GMT 2004


Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>> Funnily enough that was what I originally set it to when I made those
>> changes to the script, but somewhere in the course of discussions
>> with Julian I changed it to /tmp.  I can't remember the exact
>> reason, but with hindsight /tmp is better, because not all systems
>> will have their MailScanner work dir in the same place.  For those
>> that are clued up its trivial to change the path to be the incoming
>> directory, or mount /tmp in tmpfs too.
> 
> Or in that case, why canty it be $MSWorkDir ? :)
> 

Because then it would have to parse the config file on each run.  Unless....
a) The arguments passed to the wrapper are changed again
or...
b) MailScanner exports the $MSWorkDir as an environment variable.



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