08-19-2005
virus in unix/linux ...?
hi,
my questions are:
1). Is it possible to write virus programs on unix or linux environments?
2).if no why? technical answers....
3).is it right? "It is not possible to write virus programs in open source environments"
inventsekar
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mailgraph
MAILGRAPH(8) System Manager's Manual MAILGRAPH(8)
NAME
mailgraph - daemon which produces graphs of SMTP traffic
SYNOPSIS
mailgraph [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
mailgraph is a daemon which produces mail statistics RRDtool for Postfix and Sendmail. This stats are stored for generating daily, weekly,
monthly and yearly graphs of sent/received/rejected and bounced/viruses/spam mails.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help and exit.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose about what you do.
-V, --version
Output version information and exit.
-c, --cat
Cause the logfile to be only read and not monitored.
-l, --logfile file
Monitor logfile file instead of /var/log/syslog.
-t, --logtype type
Set logfile's type (default: syslog).
-y, --year
Start year of the log file (default: current year).
--host=HOST
Use only entries for HOST (regexp) in syslog.
-d, --daemon
Start in the background
--daemon-pid=FILE
Write PID to FILE instead of /var/run/mailgraph.pid.
--daemon-rrd=DIR
Write RRDs to DIR instead of /var/lib/mailgraph/.
--daemon-log=FILE
Write verbose-log to FILE instead of /var/log/mailgraph.log.
--ignore-localhost
Ignore mail to/from localhost (used for virus scanner).
--ignore-host=HOST
Ignore mail to/from HOST (used for virus scanner).
--no-mail-rrd
Do not update the mail rrd.
--no-virus-rrd
Do not update the virus rrd.
--no-greylist-rrd
Do not update the greylist rrd.
--rrd-name=NAME
Use NAME.rrd, NAME_virus.rrd and NAME_greylist.rrd for the rrd files.
--rbl-is-spam
Count rbl rejects as spam.
--virbl-is-virus
Count virbl rejects as viruses.
SEE ALSO
rrdtool(1), RRDs(3pm)
AUTHOR
David Schweikert <dws@ee.ethz.ch>
MAILGRAPH(8)