Oden Eriksson wrote: > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 18.03, Buchan Milne wrote: >> Sylvestre Taburet wrote: >> | --=-=-= >> | Name : samba Relocations: (not >> | relocateable) Version : 2.2.4 Vendor: >> | MandrakeSoft Release : 5mdk Build Date: >> | Tue >> | Jun 4 >> >> 14:37:58 2002 >> >> | Install date: (not installed) Build Host: >> >> bi.mandrakesoft.com >> >> | Group : System/Servers Source RPM: (none) >> | Size : 4412151 License: GPL >> | Packager : Sylvestre Taburet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> | Summary : Samba SMB server. >> | Description : >> >> [...] >> >> | * Tue Jun 04 2002 Sylvestre Taburet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> | 2.2.4-5mdk >> | >> | - changed vfs location in sample mdk smb.conf. >> >> Changelog for -4mdk was: >> | * Mon Jun 03 2002 Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.2.4-4mdk >> | - More patch cleaning >> | - Antivirus support (optional at build time). Please test if you have >> >> one of >> >> | fprot, kaspersky,mks,symantec or trend. Sophos has been tested and >> >> builds >> >> | and works. >> | - Move all vfs objects to /usr/lib/samba/vfs >> >> Thus on-access scanning of files by samba. Infected files on the server >> are not accessible (plus you get a syslog entry), and infected files >> cannot be copied onto the server. > > Please _don't_ integrate this fluid feature into _samba_. I was about to > make a samba add-on rpm package of this AV feature some time ago, but I > hesitated... Please remove it from the samba package, it belongs to > contribs at its best... >
Well you got a good point here... But as VFS will be part of samba, maybe we still can include a few "built in" plugins into samba, and then leave the rest in contribs? Actually, because most antivirus are commercial software, I tend to agree with you . WDYT Buchan? Cheers -- Sylvestre Taburet - Mandrakesoft, Paris. "Why did the Philharmonic disband? - Excessive sax and violins."
