SV: Panda not working

[Steen, Glenn]

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Yes, well.... There is where you (unfortunately) may start to stumble...
See, the original wrapper does a pretty decent job of sanitizing the output, but... It assumes that the output is as seen on an xterm/vt-whatever when executing "inside MS". This isn't the case.
So then the original author "falls back" on invoking pavcl once/file... and still it'll mess up from time to time. Set your TERM to "dumb" (or unset it), then call it as is done in MS on a directory that may contain several subdirectories (both clean and unclean files) and you'll likely see the same mess I found... Of course, I'd be rather happy if it did work for you, since that would point at some peculiarity in my system, but.... I won't hold my breath:-).

I'll be glad to share my "improved" wrapper scripts if you'd like to have a go with them, but... I'd recommend against wasting to much (more) time on it. Drop a line and I'll forward them tomorrow (horrible hacks that they are:-).

Best would be for them to produce sane output.

-- Glenn

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> > > > 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.
> I'm obviously missing something here... So SafePipe would solve
> several simultaneous pavcl invocations writing to the one and
> only /var/log/panda/pavcl.rpt? If so, then... let's go for it!

Oh no, I misuderstood you. You would need to do use a lock/retry mechanisim
to
keep multiple children from attempting to access the file at the same time,
but I was
just looking at the actual output of the virus scanner I wouldn't think
cleaning and parsing
the actual output would be difficult do handle anyway, it's mostly ANSI
escape sqequences. So I guess
I am wondering what the actual problem is?



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