Mailscanner antivirus update notify

[Erick Perez]

right, but it will be nice to have it as a feature/option of the MailScanner
distro because it is useful.
Yes, you could drop some sendmail stuff in the update script, i just think
that as a release feature it will be nicer.

PS Alex :No, nothing yet. might change in a few days.


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Alex Neuman
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:31 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner antivirus update notify

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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