Panda not working

[Steen, Glenn]

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> Sent: den 7 mars 2005 16:57
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Panda not working
> 
> 
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> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> > Sent: den 6 mars 2005 22:53
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Panda not working
> > 
> > 
> > Hm. Will have to have another look tomorrow...
> > I did try the pavcl but after some like trouble _and_ discovering
> > that the "free" version was "free less any signature updates"...
> > Well, suffice it to say that I don't use it:).
> > Will have another look though.
> > 
> > -- Glenn
> 
> This would've been simpler if the person writing the script had been
> "partial" to a language I know... Spanish or Portugese or Brasilian
> is not my forte, but... I think I understand what makes it not work,
> at least.
> 
> It's rather simple.... The pavcl command errors out each time it's
> called (a syntax error, so it prints the equivalent "pavcl --help")
> This is due to the use of '$archive', where pavcl barfs on the signle
> quotes. Probably put there to "protect" against filenames with spaces
> in 'em, but since it doesn't work...
> 
> And to add to this, the logic behind the directory traversal seem to
> be .... not that well thought through (meaning it results in
> ridiculous commandlines like "/usr/bin/pavcl 'message/message' -CMP"
> where there is no "message" subdirectory, just the rfc822 message
> file (I don't quarantine queue files)). So that needs amending too.
> 
> Next problem is that they present you with a longish "license 
> agreement" type of thing... every time! Sigh. And use curses for it.
> Double-sigh. So it seems to get "stuck" waiting for you to press <LF>
> a couple of time. Not good. could perhaps be solved in an ...
> expect-ish manner, but .... Really crappy. Might be different if
> you've bought a license perhaps?
> 
> And this answers your other question "Does anyone have panda working"
> ... Seems to be "no":-):-).
> 
> Or have there been significant improvements recently to the panda 
> wrapper? I'm lagging a bit, so I'll have to compare with a more
> recent version perhaps... Hm, nope, 4.39.6 is as bad.
> I'll see what I can do.
> 
> -- Glenn

Ok, this one has pimples the size of Everest, but could you just try it
out Paul? To run it as MailScanner does call it like:
/usr/lib/MailScanner/panda-wrapper /usr -aut -aex -heu -nso -cmp -esp
/tmp

-- Glenn

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   MailScanner mailing list on behalf of Paul Welsh
> > Sent:   Fri 3/4/2005 9:20 PM
> > To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Cc:	
> > Subject:        Re: Panda not working
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> > > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> > > Sent: 04 March 2005 09:47
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: Panda not working
> > >
> > > > I've tried the command:
> > > >
> > > > /usr/lib/MailScanner/panda-wrapper /usr/bin/pavcl /tmp
> > > Try
> > > /usr/lib/MailScanner/panda-wrapper /usr /tmp
> > > since the lines
> > > $pavcl = shift;
> > > $pavcl .=  '/bin/pavcl';
> > > would first set $pavcl to /usr, then concatenate /bin/pavcl onto
> > > that, making $pavcl (which is used further down) be /usr/bin/pavcl
> > >
> > > If that doesn't work, try it while standing in the /tmp directory.
> > > Looking at it, it seems like the wrapper ignores any path, but
> > > will preserve scanner options.
> > 
> > Thanks, Glenn, but I still get "Virus: 0" whether I run the 
> > panda-wrapper
> > command from /tmp or not.
> > 
> > Anyone have any other ideas?
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