/tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock

[Julian Field]

Julian Field wrote:
> 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.
>
I have just tested this and it worked just fine.
Not sure what you did, but I would request that you re-do your tests. I 
cannot reproduce the behaviour that you found.

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