/tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock

[Denis Beauchemin]

Julian Field wrote:

> 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.
>
Julian,

I also have this file on my systems, but it seems to get updated quite 
often:
[root at smtpe1 ~]# cat /tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock
Virus checker locked for scanning by mcafee 3546
[root at smtpe1 ~]# cat /tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock
Virus checker locked for scanning by mcafee 2284
[root at smtpe1 ~]# cat /tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock
Virus checker locked for scanning by mcafee 2284
[root at smtpe1 ~]# cat /tmp/McAfeeBusy.lock
Virus checker locked for scanning by mcafee 3794

My McAfee does detect viruses!  I'm using mailscanner-4.50.10-1 under 
RHEL 4.

Denis

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