[Mimedefang] build advice mimdefang 2.42
Jerome Tytgat
jerome.tytgat at asterion.fr
Mon May 10 11:15:59 EDT 2004
> When I ran ./configure I noticed some entries that I would like some advice on.
You are at the good place :)
> Do I have to install all virus scanners before I configure and make?
no, but if you have, they'll be autodetected
> what happens if I want to add another scanner later, do I have to configure and make again?
no, There's a conf file (mimedefang.pl.conf) where you define what scanner you have
this is mine :
# This file is a perl file which gets 'require'd from mimedefang
# You can set the virus-scanner paths etc.
# See mimedefang.pl
#$Features{'Virus:NAI'} = '/usr/local/bin/uvscan';
#$Features{'Virus:SOPHOS'} = '/usr/local/bin/sweep';
$Features{'Virus:SOPHIE'} = '/usr/local/sbin/sophie';
$SophieSock = '/var/spool/MIMEDefang/sophie';
$Features{'Virus:CLAMD'} = '/usr/sbin/clamd';
$ClamdSock = '/var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock';
# DO NOT delete the next line, or Perl will complain.
1;
> While we are on virus scanners, at the moment I have NAI 7.0. can you give me the names / url of some free scanners just for backup.
At that point theres :
- file::scan ("Fastest" say the mimedefang team)
=> http://freshmeat.net/projects/filescan/
- clamav/clamd (a very good one, I'm using it :), fast because it's a demon and not a command line)
=> http://www.clamav.net/
- OpenAntivirus (I don't know much about this one)
=> http://www.openantivirus.org/
If you mind being fast (and you should) this is the Av which are the best
for mimedefang :
- File:scan
- clamd, sophie, trophie, symantecCSS, fprotd, avp5, openav are daemonized version
You should avoid Command line AV for performance reasons.
> What is file::scan?
A virus scanner
>
> Perl modules.
>
> Unix::syslog....no do I need it?
Hum I do not know for this one, feeling ys you should if
you want to log some stuff
> Anomy::htmlcleaner....no do I need it?
Anomy is for cleaning HTML, actually it's buggy and may be
dropped in future releases
> File::scan...no as above, do I need it?
See above :)
> Sorry I know that's a lot of stuff, but any advice will be great
No problems ;-)
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