[OpenAFS] virus scanner?

Klaas Hagemann kerberos@northsailor.de
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:47:36 +0100


Mitch Collinsworth schrieb:
> 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.

Can you give me a hint were to find this dump tool?
- Klaas

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> -Mitch
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