Re: [AMaViS-user] Calling a simple shell script whenever a virus is found?

Sven,

> I'm currently using Amavis to use clamav for filtering emails that contain
> viruses. This works great so far.
>
> However: Whenever a virus arrives, I need to call a shell script. This
> shell script just increases a counter in a database and therefore doesn't
> need any information (not the title or subject of the mail, etc.). It just
> needs to be called.
>
> Does someone know a way that I can tell amavis to call this script when
> finding a virus?

Such a mechanism is not provided, you will need to modify the program.

Why not use counters which are already collected in a Berkeley database?
As an example on how to read it, see amavisd-agent, or just db_dump -p
the database /var/amavis/db/snmp.db

Mark


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