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i wonder if "vscanx" (the cli tool) was updated?

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Contributed by: poolmouse Thursday, April 08 2004 @ 06:35 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

i prefer to use the vscanx cli tool and cron to schedule nighttime scans. i have this crontab entry that scans at 5:01am, then moves infected files to a quarantine folder on the user's desktop. summary is appended to text file including finishing time:

<b>1 5 * * * root /usr/local/vscanx/vscanx --move /Users/username/Desktop/VIREX_OUT/QUARANTINE / --recursive --unzip --atime-preserve --ignore-links --summary >> /Users/username/Desktop/VIREX_OUT/SUMMARY.TXT && echo "Finished at:" >> /Users/username/Desktop/VIREX_OUT/SUMMARY.TXT && date >> /Users/username/Desktop/VIREX_OUT/SUMMARY.TXT</b>

i don't care much for the gui...since i remotely manage several shops, i'd rather control things via cron and through the cli.

poolmouse

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i wonder if "vscanx" (the cli tool) was updated? - lp15

I believe that vscanx does all the work. The GUI just calls vscanx (and reports a successful scan even if vscanx crashes)

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Friday, April 09 2004 @ 03:57 AM PDT