Sophos Version 5

[Julian Field]

On 24 May 2006, at 10:40, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

> On 24.05.2006 10:23, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> I have added a new page to the wiki at
>>
>> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php? 
>> id=documentation:anti_virus:sophos:install:version5
>>
>> with some guidance on how to stop the wretched think spewing out  
>> mail every time it finds something.
>>
>> Can other users of Sophos 5 check it out for me please? What else  
>> needs adding to it?
>
>
> what luck that i had disabled   sav-protect  :-)
>
>
> you have to stop  "sav-protect" and you get no
>
> "Subject: [SAV-LINUX] On-demand scan report on <hostname>"
>
> even with EmailNotifier enabled, see below.
>

I did that too, but I thought I should do a thorough job of it :-)
Much better to stop it in 50 ways than 1, so long as you never plan  
on reversing the process!

> -------
> redhat/fedora
> # chkconfig sav-protect off
> # service sav-protect stop
> --------
>
>
> # service sav-protect status
> Sophos Anti-Virus daemon is inactive
>
> # chkconfig sav-protect --list
> sav-protect     0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
>
> # ./savconfig -v | grep -i email
> EmailNotifier: enabled
> SendThreatEmail: enabled
> SendErrorEmail: enabled
> EmailDemandSummaryAlways Not configured
> EmailDemandSummaryIfThreat Not configured
> Email: Recipient=en: root at localhost
> SendEmailLogLevel: FATAL
> EmailServer: localhost:25
>
>
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> shrek-m
>
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