On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:30:12AM -0700, Ted Cabeen wrote: > Has anyone seen problems with updating the virus defs while they're being=
Absolutely - it's a dangerous thing to do. I download and unpack the new pattern files into a temp dir, create an EICAR test virus and tell the scanner to scan that file with the new pattern files (most scanners should allow you to redefine where the pattern files are). If they are OK, I *MOVE* the pattern files into the live dir. That way the window for problems is minimized. However, that still causes the scanner to fail if it's invoked at the moment the move occurs. Here I look for updates once every hour, and I get around one such "clash" per week - so it's easy to do... However, that just causes Q-S to requeue - nothing really bad happens... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
