Re: quarantine directory not working dor vscan-sophos

Rainer Link <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:13:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:46:59PM +0100, Thomas H?nig wrote:
> Now I have found another machine with the same behaviour, but complete (but sophie) different system:
> (SuSE 9.0)

> Dec  7 14:40:21 eksl smbd_vscan_sophos[15100]: ALERT - Scan result: '/tmp/eicar.com' infected with virus 'EICAR-AV-Test', client: '192.168.216.5'
> Dec  7 14:40:22 eksl smbd_vscan_sophos[15100]: INFO: quarantining file '/tmp/eicar.com' to '/var/tmp/vabc-EKQYTX' was successful


Ah, now it rings a bell. D'oh, I remember a report about this issue some
time ago, but I can't remember currently if I've fixed it in 0.3.5
or not. 

How do you start Samba? Via the init scripts from SUSE? Can you
please make sure that TMPDIR is unset and try again?

Thanks.

best regards
Rainer Link



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