Mailscanner antivirus update notify

[Alex Neuman]

In /etc/cron.hourly there's a file called "update_virus_scanners". Since
it has no output, cron doesn't tell you about it. Make it output something
at that stage and you'll know what happened.

Otherwise that script calls /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners, where you
could also do something with Bash (like sendmail -s "ClamAV Script Update"
root) to tell yourself.

Remember that any output of a cron job gets e-mailed to root (or whoever
owns the cron job). If you send yourself e-mail using sendmail, you don't
need to create any output. Likewise, if you create output, you don't need
to send e-mail (unless root is separate from the administrative account).

PS: Nada de lo mío todavía? ;D

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Erick Perez
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:25 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Mailscanner antivirus update notify
Importance: High


I would like to receive an email everytime MailScanner makes an update to
my AV (currently CLAMAV). Is there an esay way to do this? It will be nice
to know when something has gone bad because it took me two days to realize
my clamav was not being updated (due to freshclam not being in /usr/local
as the config assumed and me being lazy with the logs).

i have my system set up to fire an email for almost all operations and
would like to continue do so....

BTW MailScanner with ClamAV rules!

Thanks,
Erick.

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