Update of /cvsroot/openantivirus/samba-vscan
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Tag: VSCAN_0_3
INSTALL
Log Message:
updated to address some of the recent code changes
Index: INSTALL
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RCS file: /cvsroot/openantivirus/samba-vscan/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.28.2.13
retrieving revision 1.28.2.14
diff -u -d -r1.28.2.13 -r1.28.2.14
--- INSTALL 4 Dec 2003 14:55:46 -0000 1.28.2.13
+++ INSTALL 26 Feb 2004 17:19:53 -0000 1.28.2.14
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Installation instructions for samba-vscan
*****************************************
-Copyright (C) by Rainer Link, 2001-2003
+Copyright (C) by Rainer Link, 2001-2004
OpenAntiVirus.org <rainer-pBPPa8WU5k41Tgt60Rntydi2O/[email protected]>
This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@
lru accessed file entry is considered as invalidated. The default is
5 seconds. Please see the chapter "Avoid multiple scans of a file
caused by Windows behaviour".
+* VSCAN_FT_EXCLUDE_LIST: MIME-types of files to be excluded from
+ scanning, separated by semi-colon. Wildcards are not possible. Use
+ this feature with care.
After you may have adjusted these settings to your needs, please
refer to the next section on how to actually build and install
@@ -166,6 +169,9 @@
lru accessed file entry is considered as invalidated. The default is 5
seconds. Please see the chapter "Avoid multiple scans of a file caused
by Windows behaviour".
+* VSCAN_FT_EXCLUDE_LIST: MIME-types of files to be excluded from
+ scanning, separated by semi-colon. Wildcards are not possible. Use
+ this feature with care!
Step 4: build
Now run the ./configure script. If you didn't copy the samba-vscan
@@ -191,12 +197,19 @@
"make fprotd oav sophos" to build the fprotd OpenAntiVirus and
Sophos backend (vscan-fprotd.so, vscan-oav.so, vscan-sophos.so).
+Hint: On *BSD systems please use GNU make (gmake) instead of BSD make, e.g.
+"gmake" (to build all modules) or "gmake fprotd" to build only the fprotd
+backend.
+
+
Step 5: install
After compilation has finished, copy the vscan-<product>.so (i.e. vscan-oav.so)
to /usr/local/samba/lib/vfs (this is the default location of Samba 3.0 -
depending on your vendor/distribution, the location may vary).
-Otherwise, "make install" should work, too.
+Otherwise, "make install" should work, too. On *BSD systems please use
+"gmake install" instead.
+
If you want to use the run-time configuration file copy the
@@ -321,13 +334,18 @@
mechanism is disabled completely. The default is 100. Please see the chapter
"Avoid multiple scans of a file caused by Windows behaviour".
-
* lru file entry lifetime = <value>
- Specified the lifetime of an entry in the lru accessed files list in seconds.
+ Specifies the lifetime of an entry in the lru accessed files list in seconds.
The default is 5. After this lifetime an entry is considered as invalidated
and deleted from the list. Please see the chapter "Avoid multiple scans of
a file caused by Windows behaviour".
+* exclude file types = <string>
+ Exlude files from scan process based on the MIME-type (i.e. as if
+ "file -i <file>" is used, see file(1) for details). This is a
+ semi-colon separated list (default: empty list). Use this feature with
+ care!
+
Step 7: Restart Samba
Restart Samba (e.g. killall -HUP smbd)
@@ -368,13 +386,14 @@
Jan 4 14:50:28 rlss2 smbd_vscan_fprotd[3201]: INFO: Scanning file : '/tmp/test.doc'
Jan 4 14:50:28 rlss2 smbd_vscan_fprotd[3201]: INFO: file /tmp/test.doc is clean
-As these examples demonstrate, those both files have been opened several times
-by Windows and therefore scanned several times, although scanning each of them
-once would have been sufficient. Of course, this slows down performance.
+As these examples demonstrate, both files have been opened several times
+by Windows and are therefore scanned several times, although scanning
+each of them once would have been sufficient. Of course, this slows down
+performance.
Since the 0.3.2 release, samba-vscan has a mechanism, to avoid this. It uses
a last recently accessed file list. Each entry contains the file name, the
-last modified date/time and the time, the entry was added to the list.
+last modified date/time and the time the entry was added to the list.
Log checking
@@ -506,7 +525,7 @@
make
Normally, configure should autodected it (i.e. if no global lib
- is available, the buildin lib will be used).
+ is available, the builtin lib will be used).
- mks_vir Daemon
You need mks32 - virus scanner, mksd - daemon for mks32, and virus
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