[Mimedefang] McAfee uvscan workaround (was: uvscan exceedingly slow)

[Peter P. Benac]

I checked and double checked my uvscan and it does not try to open the
CDROM. It does what it's supposed to do and in a timely manner.  I do not
have anything mounted in the CD Drive.  It is only supposed to check the
command line input unless it's told to scan the drives.  I looked through my
MIMEDefang and it does NOT tell it to scan the drives.

I am running Solaris 8 & 9 on my mail servers.

I think you need to look and see how uvscan is being executed instead of
trying to "fake" it out. Check to make sure that the uvscan executable being
called by MIMEDefang is actually a binary and not an alias or script calling
the real uvscan with some strange command line arguments.

Regards,
Pete
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
> [mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf 
> Of David F. Skoll
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:49
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] McAfee uvscan workaround (was: 
> uvscan exceedingly slow)
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > Examining further the output of "strace uvscan ...", it was obvious 
> > that two 5-6 second delays occur when uvscan apparently 
> tries to open 
> > the /dev/hda device.
> 
> Why on Earth would it try opening /dev/hda???  There *must* 
> be a command-line option telling uvscan only to look in the 
> files or directories specified on the command-line, and 
> nowhere else.  Opening /dev/hda (unless specifically asked) 
> is just plain rude.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.
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