MailScanner --lint

[Martin Hepworth]

Jules

Ah yes Ross Anderson is indeed a very good speaker (amongst other things!).

As to the .conf file you mention I presume you mean the virus.scanners.conf
in this case.

I guess I could just sym link /bin/false to /usr/bin/false so I have to
meddle with when I upgrade..


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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 05 April 2006 11:48
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: MailScanner --lint
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> 
> 
> Martin Hepworth wrote:
> > Jules
> >
> > Hope the JANET bash is going well - program looks interesting.
> >
> Yes it is thanks. Very very good talk from the professor of security
> engineering at Cambridge University's computer lab. I would really like
> to go and work for him :-)
> 
> Also a good talk from the head of security at SLAC (Stanford Linear
> Accelerator Centre) who gave a very good overview of computer security
> in different contexts, and how poor a lot of security systems are.
> > Anyway running 4.51.1 on FreeBSD 4.10 (the generic tar.gz installer NOT
> the
> > ports version) and "MailScanner -lint" reports
> >
> > Can't exec "/bin/false": No such file or directory at
> > /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 2882.
> >
> >
> > Which is true....../bin/false should be /usr/bin/false in my case....
> >
> On 99% of systems it's in /bin, so that's where I put it by default.
> Don't forget that you area allowed to edit these .conf files, and
> occasionally you will need to do so for your systems.
> 
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