I like to use the context menu in KDE’s konqueror to scan directories and files using avast for linux.
The konqueror service menu file avast-quickscan.desktop included with avast v1.0.8 reads
[Desktop Action quickscan]
Exec=avastgui --scan-dir=%F
Name=Scan for viruses…
…
So the command executed when I ‘right click’ is avastgui --scan-dir=%F where %F is resolved by KDE to the actual list of files.
This fails - avastgui aborts- whenever the directory name contains spaces, otherwise it works fine.
I have tried putting “%F”, ‘%F’, “%U” and also tried a lot on the command line.
It appears that the avastgui switch --scan-dir cannot handle strings that contain spaces.
I have compared to similar service menu entries, e. g. zip-files, and found that none other uses “=” for their long switches.
So I think it should work if avastgui would change to accept avastgui --scan-dir %F
hmm,
it seems that double-prefixing would be necessary, due to intermediate evaluation. Try "%F"…
from shell’s point of view, there must be finally: avastgui --scan-dir=“blabla”, check with ps -lax | grep avastgui .
if the " disappeared, prefix them (maybe twice, so triple '' chars, i don’t know how many shell evaluations are performed when calling things from KDE Conquerror environment).
Hi, i have a Acer Aspire One running Fedora 10 KDE Live on HDD. I have installed Avast for Linux, the primary reason to use Avast on Linux is to scan Win32 PC’s or HDD’s.
When i do scan on Win32 partitions Avast gives a final scan report telling me that there is an error due permissions for each win32 file.
Hallo,
just make sure the mounted volume is accessible for the user who runs avastgui. Yes, Win-world uses filesystems with poor acces right model, but you can “chmod” the whole mounted volume - use “uid=” mount option.
Personally, I use this (for VFAT, for NTFS uid= and umask= work as well): -o umask=022,uid=zilog,quiet,showexec
man mount
