problems with bitdefender

[Julian Field]

At 12:32 02/05/2004, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
> > PS Bitdefender is free for Linux so people may like to consider adding
> > it as another defence.
> >
> > Quote from the Bitdefender web site: "BitDefender Linux Edition v7 is a
> > freeware product, which doesn't require a license to be used."
>
>Trying this right now, but i noticed the update_virus_scanners didnt see i
>have it installed. Its in the regular place (/opt/bdc) and when i run
>manually /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender_autoupdate is updated the sig
>files.
>
>Any idea Julian ?
>
>Trying the RPM version from their website:
>BitDefender-Console-Antivirus-7.0.1-3.linux-gcc3x.i586.rpm
>
>So its using the suggested paths as packed by bitdefender theirselves
>
>I also noticed in the /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf
>
>bitdefender    /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-wrapper /usr/local/bd7
>
>After changing that to /opt/bdc it seems to pick it up ok:
>
>bitdefender     /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-wrapper /opt/bdc/
>
>May  2 13:25:41 vmx01 update.virus.scanners: Found bitdefender installed
>May  2 13:25:41 vmx01 update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
>bitdefender
>
>There is some stuff in the wrapper i noticed, but thats not picking things
>up, right now it is, but only with the changed paths in the
>virus.scanners.conf

The preferred path *was* /usr/local/bd7, they must have changed it.
Everything should work once virus.scanners.conf points to /opt/bdc (you
don't need the trailing / on the end).

It's awkward to have 2 default paths for one scanner :-)
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