Panda not working

[Rick Cooper]

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> Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 9:22 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Panda not working
>
[...]
> > Of course it's an over simplified example but it appears to
> > be consistently
> > accurate. If you wanted to do away with the wrapper e
> > altogether this could
> > be processed through the Message.pm::SafePipe function.
> Uhum, and this works well with say 5 children on a busy server?

well, uh.. yes. The basic concept is already in use in other wrappers and
SafePipe is currently used for handling the UnRar tasks which would be more
intensive, in general, than the virus scanning it's self, I would think.

>
> > If Julian thinks there is enough call for the panda handling
> > and doesn't
> > have the time to mess with it I could probably do something
> > with it this
> > week.
> Be my guest (I'm certainly thoroughly fed up with panda... Do
> surprise me and think up a brilliant scheme for it:)
> And yes, I thought of using that "feature" too, but discarded it
> as being unworkable MS (please prove me wrong;).
> One could also use the panda.log file, but that would probably
> become old in a hurry.

It wouldn't require anything "brilliant" just deciding the best way to do
it. The question, to me, is simply what does the user base want. Then can it
be done with reliability, then what is the best way to do it. Getting angry
at a company because they don't feel compelled to do things your way is
generally a waste of time. Been there with the rar author(s), and I am a
licensed user of thier product. If you download the free Linux version the
page clearly states unsupported so if it's a worthwhile endeavor, let's see
if it can be reasonably handled without their help. If there isn't a real
need for it then let's just move on.



Rick


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