Generic virus scanner found

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Tue Nov 30 22:17:32 GMT 2004


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Steve Campbell wrote:
> I do recall the "generic" philosophy when it was invented, and had looked
> throught both the wrapper and autoupdate scripts for generic. I am no perl
> coder and not a very proficient shell coder, and thought that the "exit 0"
> at the top would exit with nothing in the logs. I guess the logging is done
> prior to calling the generic scheme.

You're right, the log lines you see come from update_virus_scanners. In
the beginning the generic-autoupdate script actually logged a line of
its own like the others but some objected to that and Julian removed it.

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/Peter Bonivart

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