/tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock

[Julian Field]

andrew at pirates.armstrong.edu wrote:
> I somehow got a lockfile owned by root left around on my system,
> /tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock.  This caused mailscanner to skip the virus checking
> and deliver infected email.  Would it be possible just to stop delivery
> under these circumstances?
>   
That certainly shouldn't happen! Please can you double-check your results.
It should just cause the virus scanner to wait until the file was lockable.
Please try it with the EICAR virus pattern (from www.eicar.org) which is 
a harmless test file, and let me know the result.

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