Oden Eriksson wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 18.03, Buchan Milne wrote:
>> Sylvestre Taburet wrote:
>> | --=-=-=
>> | Name        : samba                        Relocations: (not
>> | relocateable) Version     : 2.2.4                             Vendor:
>> | MandrakeSoft Release     : 5mdk                          Build Date:
>> | Tue
>> | Jun  4
>>
>> 14:37:58 2002
>>
>> | Install date: (not installed)               Build Host:
>>
>> bi.mandrakesoft.com
>>
>> | Group       : System/Servers                Source RPM: (none)
>> | Size        : 4412151                          License: GPL
>> | Packager    : Sylvestre Taburet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> | Summary     : Samba SMB server.
>> | Description :
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> | * Tue Jun 04 2002 Sylvestre Taburet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> | 2.2.4-5mdk
>> |
>> | - changed vfs location in sample mdk smb.conf.
>>
>> Changelog for -4mdk was:
>> | * Mon Jun 03 2002 Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.2.4-4mdk
>> | - More patch cleaning
>> | - Antivirus support (optional at build time). Please test if you have
>>
>> one of
>>
>> |   fprot, kaspersky,mks,symantec or trend. Sophos has been tested and
>>
>> builds
>>
>> |   and works.
>> | - Move all vfs objects to /usr/lib/samba/vfs
>>
>> Thus on-access scanning of files by samba. Infected files on the server
>> are not accessible (plus you get a syslog entry), and infected files
>> cannot be copied onto the server.
> 
> Please _don't_ integrate this fluid feature into _samba_. I was about to
> make a samba add-on rpm package of this AV feature some time ago, but I
> hesitated... Please remove it from the samba package, it belongs to
> contribs at its best...
> 

Well you got a good point here... But as VFS will be part of samba, maybe 
we still can include a few "built in" plugins into samba, and then leave 
the rest in contribs? Actually, because most antivirus are commercial 
software, I tend to agree with you . WDYT Buchan?

Cheers
-- 
Sylvestre Taburet - Mandrakesoft, Paris.
"Why did the Philharmonic disband? 
- Excessive sax and violins."

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