NAME

pmx-vscan - PureMessage Anti-Virus service


SYNOPSIS

   pmx-vscan start
   pmx-vscan stop
   pmx-vscan restart
   pmx-vscan status
   pmx-vscan scan <message-file>


DESCRIPTION

The pmx-vscan program is the control program for the PureMessage Anti-Virus service, which PureMessage uses to scan for viruses in email. It is used to start, stop and monitor the service optionally used by the pmx_virus policy test. See the pmx-policy manpage for more information.

Run pmx-vscan as the PureMessage user (by default 'pmx'). You can also run pmx-init as root, or from system startup and shutdown scripts.

The following sub-commands are recognized:

pmx-vscan start
This will start the Anti-Virus service if it is not already running.

pmx-vscan stop
This will stop the Anti-Virus service.

pmx-vscan restart
This will restart the Anti-Virus service.

pmx-vscan status
This will print the current status of the Anti-Virus service.

pmx-vscan scan message-file
This will pass the specified message file to the Anti-Virus service for scanning and print the result.


COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Sophos Group. All rights reserved. Sophos and PureMessage are trademarks of Sophos Plc and Sophos Group.