Re: Warning: Sophie might ignore subdirectories undercertain circumstances

Sophos also has it's own daemon which could work with postfix 
and amavisd-new has a build in support for working with
libsavi (http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/www/projects/SAVI-Perl/dist/)
this is, if you want to stick with Sophos..


On  0, Pete Henshall <[email protected]> wrote:
:We moved from Sophie to Clamd and have had no issues since - I'd recommend
:it.
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:Pete
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:-----Original Message-----
:From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
:Behalf Of David Birnbaum
:Sent: 22 July 2004 17:15
:To: [email protected]; Discussion about Virge/Sophie/Trophie/...
:Subject: Re: [vtools] Re: Warning: Sophie might ignore subdirectories
:undercertain circumstances
:
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:We're using it a whole lot....  I wish we had someone here capable of
:maintaining it.  We'd even be willing to chip in some "support" (cash?
:CDs?  martinis?)
:
:David.
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:-----
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:On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, L. Jankok wrote:
:
:> is sophie still worth using now it is not being
:> mantained anymore ?.
:>
:> On  0, Dirk Kraemer <[email protected]> wrote:
:> :Hi all!
:> :
:> :We noticed following problem with sophie:
:> :
:> :  OS: SuSE Linux 9.0, 9.1
:> :  Sophie Version: sophie-3.04rc2
:> :  Filesystem: ReiserFS
:> :
:> :Within above environment, if we do a
:> :
:> :  $ mkdir -p /tmp/dir1/dir2/dir3
:> :  $ stat /tmp/dir1/dir2
:> :
:> :we get a '0' for number of allocated
:> :blocks for /tmp/dir1/dir2:
:> :
:> :  File: ;/tmp/dir1/dir2+
:> :  Size: 72              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   ...
:> :  ...
:> :
:> :But that number seems to be used by sophie
:> :to decide if a subdirectory has to be scanned.
:> :Within sophie_scandir.c we find at line 86:
:> :
:> :   if (filestat.st_blocks > 0)
:> :      if ((sophie_scandir(path)) > 0) {
:> :           closedir(dirpt);
:> :           return(1); /* virus found */
:> :      }
:> :
:> :So if this values is 0, sophie does not recursively
:> :scan subdirectories, does not find any viruses within.
:> :
:> :This effect does not occur when using ext2, ext3 with
:> :SuSE or any of ext2,ext3,reiserfs with Debian Sarge.
:> :So maybe check yourself if your system might have
:> :the same problem.
:> :
:> :If you comment out the (filestat.st_blocks > 0)
:> :check, sophie scans subdirectories again. However,
:> :does someone know into which problems we might run
:> :now?
:> :
:> :Regards
:> :
:> :Dirk
:> :
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