running into a number of wonderful issues getting virus scanning up and running on my plesk 6 server... i chose amavis, simply because i've used it before... ultimate goal here is to get amavis virus scanning and spam filtering ala spamassassin but i'm open to suggestions as to better software...

qmail has an add-on called Qmail-Scanner that looks really nice and i may play with that next... but first of course i need to get a virus scanner installed...

so anyway... this is partially a How-To and partially a what should i do?

ugh... dependencies... dependencies... dependencies...

heres how far i've gotten so far on installing amavis...

the various perl modules required by amavis are available through CPAN... however due to some nasty perl bugs in Perl 5.8.0 which comes with Redhat 9 the Archive::Zip module will not install... apparently the UTF handling is b0rked as referenced here:
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porter...g/msg97475.html

just do
# LANG=en_US
then run CPAN again and it should install...

however ./configure is now telling me i need 'arc' which i find out is an old DOS compression app.

so i found that at (thanks to rpmfind.net):
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/PLD/current/d....21e-5.i686.rpm

so thats all good.. now i need unarj... [sigh].. and the saga continues...

ahh.. lets see.. where did i leave off..

ok.. next things next...

unarj was also not installed and a requirement...

i obtained that one easily because its available through RHN's up2date tool. so just type:

# up2date unarj

next was unrar... i grabbed a couple rpm's but the rpms were complaining about some c library dependencies and it was probably one of those situations where you just need to make a symlink but i wasnt in the mood... i downloaded the linux tarball from www.rarlabs.com (no its not a free program, but the FAQ says that unrar will not stop working after 40 days, only rar) and that tarball contained.. binaries!! yaaayyy.... so thats all good...

now i needed 'zoo' another archiving program...
once again rpmfind.net to the rescue:
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/PLD/current/d...2.10-6.i686.rpm

that installed without issues...

and amavis now compiles... woohoo...
you still need to have an actual antivirus scanner...
i'm using H+BDEV AntiVir for now.. but like i said.. i'm open to suggestions...