[Mimedefang] BitDefender

[John Rowan Littell]

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Lo, cam and the coffee pot sang in unison:

> >Aug 29 15:30:47 safemail mimedefang.pl[30287]: run_virus_scanner command
> :
> >/usr/local/bin/bdc /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-h7TDUh9Q000504/Work
> >--all--arc --mail 2>&1
> hmmmm i've not looked too deep into the way the virus scanners are called
> (yet) but is it normal to throw the scanner into the background that way?
> since MD is waiting for the return value/text, wouldn't this seem a little
> odd?

Er, background?  That's merely redirecting STDERR to STDOUT (STDERR is
file handle 2, and STDOUT is file handle 1).

  --rowan

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John "Rowan" Littell
Systems Administrator
Earlham College Computing Services
http://www.earlham.edu/~littejo/
2003-08-29 09:50
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