On Fri, 17 May 2002, at 1:25pm, mike ledoux wrote: > we now will also scan for virii on the Samba servers whenever a file is > accessed.
The general concensus is that the only way to do this without taking a huge performance hit would be to build the anti-virus engine into either Samba or the kernel. > Now, I've found a number of virus scanners that will run on x86 Linux to > scan for Windows virii at the command line, so periodic scans of the > exported filesystems are not a problem, but I can't for the life of me > figure out a way to make Samba scan a file before serving it to the > client, or to make Samba scan an incoming file from the client before > writing it to disk. Plugging an external scanner into this would likely suck. You would have to fork() on each I/O event. > I'm facing some pressure here of the 'if this was an NT server, this > wouldn't be a problem' variety... If NT is the better choice, use it. "Linux at all costs" is a poor way to do things, and hurts both the user and the Linux community. > ... I'm really hoping that there is a known solution for this problem. How about an unknown solution? Trend Micro <http://www.trendmicro.com> claims to have a real-time anti-virus solution for Linux servers. I have not yet had a chance to see how (or even if) it works. But it might be worth checking out. URL for the particular product is: http://www.antivirus.com/products/splinux/ -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
