On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Nermin Celik <n.celik00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat from > FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not > Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment, and this is too > technicial. > The Sophos AV client has a couple versions. There's an "on access" scanner that requires a kernel module to be loaded . It scans all files on access (when written, read, etc.). Sophos provides, after some delay, modules for the major distributions including RedHat and Suse. You can also build these modules if you have the correct kernel development environment, but they do not provide the same level of support for custom-built modules. The other version is a command line scanner. It runs without a kernel module but must be kicked off manually. Redhat and Fedora are sufficiently different that kernel modules for RedHat will not work on Fedora. In fact, if you update your kernel on RedHat, you will also need to update the Sophos module. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
