Avast and Postfix- Help!!!

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Hi every body,

I have installed avast for linux on postfix and I try to make it working.
I followd instructions in the HOWTO.postfix that existe in package avast4linux-1.0.8. I need more information about the Deamon Avastrelay especially : how to configure notifications, quarantaine,…

Any help or document will be appreciate.

thank’s in advance and sorry for my modest english.

latifa.

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Make sure you have the current version installed. Ver 1.0.1

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I have postfix v1.1.11, avast v1.0.8 and avastrelay v1.0.8 installed.

I have problem to set administrator’s notification adresse and enable avast to send virus notification to email sender, according to the manual pages this is possible:

avastrelay --notify-sender
avastrelay --notify-admin <adresse_mail>

but the commande doesn’t work ???, it returns me:

avastrelay: application is already running

I dont understand what happens, some thing is wrrong in the syntaxe??

An other question about quarantine’s files. Does avastrelay quarantine somewhere?I dont find any information indicated on this subject.
Frankly spreaking, I dont know what are the default actions performed by avastrelay when a virus is detected? is it possible to choose standard actions: repair, quarantine, delate,…?

think’s for any help

latifa.

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You will need to send this to the support staff via email. It could sit in this forum forever without being noticed.

5

Hi,
try to insert --notify-sender and --notify-admin options to /etc/init.d/avastrelay file.
avastrelay doesn’t support quarantine :(, an infected message is deleted by default.

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Hi Dublin,

I put --notify-sender and --notify-admin options in /etc/init.d/avastrelay as you told me,I inserted them in the configuration bloc. then When I restart avastrelay I have the following error:
/etc/init.d/avastrelay: line 52: --notify-sender: command not found
/etc/init.d/avastrelay: line 53: --notify-admin: command not found
Would you please tell me where exactly should I insert this two lignes? or correct my syntaxe if it’s wrrong.
I forward you my avastraly file :

#!/bin/sh

avastrelay

A shell-script wrapper for avastrelay designed for

use in the SysV-init system.

usage: avastrelay { start [] | stop | restart | force-reload | status }

RedHat comment block…

chkconfig: 345 80 30

description: Virus check Message Transfer Agent.

pidfile: /var/run/avastrelay.pid

processname: avastrelay

LSB comment block…

BEGIN INIT INFO

Provides: avastrelay

Required-Start: $network $syslog

Required-Stop: $network $syslog

Default-Start: 3 4 5

Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6

Description: avastrelay is a virus check Message Transfer Agent.

END INIT INFO

Source function library.

if test -f /etc/init.d/functions
then
style=“rh”
. /etc/init.d/functions
elif test -f /etc/rc.status
then
style=“suse”
. /etc/rc.status
elif test -f /lib/lsb/init-functions
then
style=“lsb”
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
else
style=“unix”
fi

avastrelay configuration

avastrelay=“/usr/sbin/avastrelay”
switches=“-ilocalhost:10025 -Ilocalhost:10026 -a/var/run/avast4mailscanner.sock -l/var/log/avast4/avastrelay -t60”
pid_file=“/var/run/avastrelay.pid”

–notify-sender
–notify-admin latifa@RedHat.test.com

Functions

function printtext( )
{
case “${style}” in
rh | suse | unix )
echo -n $* >&2
;;
lsb)
lsb_text=“$@”
;;
esac
}

function printusage( )
{
usage=“{ start []|stop|restart|force-reload|status }”
echo “usage: basename $0 ${usage}” >&2
}

function getstatus( )
{
case “${style}” in
rh)
echo
[ “$?” -eq 0 ]
;;
suse)
rc_status $@
;;
lsb)
if test “$?” -eq 0 -a “${1}” = “-v”
then
log_success_msg “${lsb_text} done”
elif test “${1}” = “-v”
then
log_failure_msg “${lsb_text} failed”
fi
;;
unix)
if test “${1}” = “-v” -a “$?” -eq 0
then
echo " … done"
fi
if test “${1}” = “-v” -a “$?” -ne 0
then
echo " … failed"
fi
;;
esac
}

function startproces( )
{
printtext “Starting avastrelay:”
case “${style}” in
rh)
daemon $@
;;
suse)
startproc $@
;;
lsb)
start_daemon $@
;;
unix)
$@
;;
esac
getstatus -v
}

function killproces( )
{
printtext “Shutting down avastrelay:”
case “${style}” in
rh | lsb)
killproc “basename \"${1}\"”
;;
suse)
killproc $@
;;
unix)
if test -f “${pid_file}” && test “cat ${pid_file}” != “”
then
kill “cat ${pid_file}”
fi
;;
esac
getstatus -v
}

function checkprocess( )
{
case “${style}” in
suse | lsb | unix)
printtext “Checking for avastrelay:”
;;
esac

base="`basename \"${1}\"`"
case "${style}" in
	rh)
		status "$base"
		;;
	suse)
		checkproc $@
		;;
	lsb)
		pids="`pidofproc \"${base}\" | sed 's/ *$//'`"
		test "${pids}" != ""
		;;
	unix)
		test -f "${pid_file}" && test "`cat ${pid_file}`" != "" && kill -0 "`cat ${pid_file}`" 2>/dev/null
		;;
esac

case "${style}" in
	lsb | suse | unix)
		getstatus -v
		;;
esac

}

Check that avastrelay exists.

[ -f “${avastrelay}” ] || exit 1

Check the command line

if test $# -eq 0
then
printusage
exit 2
fi

Process the command line

case “${1}” in
start)
startproces “${avastrelay} ${switches}”
;;
stop)
killproces “${avastrelay}”
;;
restart|force-reload)
$0 stop
$0 start $@
;;
reload)
echo usage: basename $0 reload: not implemented >&2
exit 3
;;
status)
checkprocess “${avastrelay}”
;;
*)
printusage
exit 2
;;
esac

exit $?

Think’s
Latifa.

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switches=“-ilocalhost:10025 -Ilocalhost:10026 -a/var/run/avast4mailscanner.sock -l/var/log/avast4/avastrelay -t60 --notify-sender --notify-admin latifa@RedHat.test.com”

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Yes!!..I tested that, and it work without problem.
thank’s a lot.

Latifa.