Re: [AMaViS-user] Virus-scanner used and startup question...

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

 
> Looking at a general output (top) of the system running,
> I've never seen uvscan used, but I see sweep executing
> now and again...
 
 Is uvscan working? Can you run it from the command line?

> Can I verify that uvscan is being used at all,
> and is there an easy edit to apply to the amavisd
> Perl script to add the name of the virus-scanner
> that has actually detected a virus to the report sent?

 Some people would consider it a security risk to reveal which
 av software they run. The easiest way would probably be to
 not extract the virus name, but add the unmodified scanner
 $output to the notification msgs.

> Do people advise starting up amavisd as part of the
> postfix startup script, and if so, how can amavisd
> be started up as another user (vscan), as opposed to root?
 
 amavisd SHOULD not run as root. It doesn't need to.
 If you use a separate startup script, amavisd should be
 started before the MTA.