[OpenAFS] virus scanner?

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Klaas Hagemann wrote:

> we want to implemet a system wide virus protetion system (or we have to...).
> That is why we want to scan the afs filespace.
> Since the virus scanner has no access to the afs space on the client
> side (it runs as root normally) and the volumes are not in "plain text"
> on the server side, we have some problems.
>
> How do you do virus protection? Is there any way to scan the volumes
> directly on the file-server without having access to the file-space?
>
> For backup we want to d something like this: vos dump | vos restore.
> Does anybody of you know a virus scanner which could work like this: vos
> dump | virusscanner | vos restore ?

Ken Hornstein's dumptool might be useful in the middle here, for parsing
the vos dump output such that you can access the files contained therein
in order to pass them to your virusscanner.

-Mitch