Topic: Does RAV Antivirus work on linux?

[Lennox]

I am thinking of buying RAV Antivirus for my e-smith server 5.5, but first I wanted to know if anyone here has used it or installed it and how it did/does? I plan to buy the qmail component if the price is right.

[brian read]

Yes, it (apparently) works well on SME.

See

http://myezserver.com

cheers

Brian

[enigma]

I have used the RAV scanner successfully at my place of work and it is a *very* good and cost effective scanner. I recommend paying a visit to www.myezserver.com and requesting the download there, this will allow you access to a very comprehensive howto and all relevent patches needed to make rav function effectively on tem esmith box + there is even a configuration panel to make setting up a doddle!

i strongly urge you to consider buying rav from DMC Netsourced / MyEzserver.com as the amount of time and effort put into this packaging and optimisizing by the guys over there definitely deserves rewarding with your purchase.

Regards

Enigma

[Oliver Naegele]

I use RAV with 2 servers and I have to say that it works very well. The automatic update function is very usefull.

[Rob Wellesley]

Latest RAV includes full SPAM filtering, BWL. etc also.  Myezserver prepackaged install is a snip - 5 minutes tops!

rob

[Cyrus Bharda]

I have installed it on 5.5 and the scan and update works fine, but not the ravmd, keep getting this error:

esmith ravmd[31857]: running as user: root(id=0) and group: admin(id=101)
esmith ravmd[31858]: starting RAV AntiVirus daemon...
esmith ravmd[31858]: loading configuration...
esmith ravmd[31858]: Configuration error: parse error
esmith ravmd[31858]: in the file  line:51.
esmith ravmd[31858]: aborted!
esmith ravmd[31857]: SUPERVISE: Please correct the above error(s) then start
RAV.

So I checked line 51 and it is:

admin_addr = *********  

And behind the ******** is an existing mailbox too. I have tryed to set this value to postmaster, root, admin, but all get the same error.  All changes are made through the server manager panel. This was a clean install on 5.5.

I have not purchased it yet, still using the 8.3 30 day trail, is that why, do i need to buy it before it works properly?

Tanks,

Cyrus Bharda

[Lennox]

I dont think I'll be using RAV, the install is for an office w/ 8 pc's and the fee is quite high. I think I'll try Clamav instead and see if I can get it to work.

Thanks.

[enigma]

Mmmmm you could always try the obtuse-smtp patch and if that doesnt work drop an email to the rav support who i can tell u from *personal* experience are fast and efficient in there replies

Best of Luck

Enigma