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Re: Anti-virus

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2004-05-14 00:17:48 CEST

Gabriel Michaud wrote:

> Is anybody running an anti-virus on their SVN Server? I believe that
> the “Malformed network data” problem I experienced for a while were
> related to Norton Anti-Virus running on the Windows 2003 server
> (svnserve). I had configured the anti-virus not to scan the svn
> repository, but I was having random problems. Now that I uninstalled
> it, the problems are gone.
>
Ouch. I'd say this antivirus software is /seriously/ broken if it can
interfere with the database so severely.

> <>Ideally I’d like to run an anti-virus on this server since it’s
> used for other things.

Just make sure it doesn't scan the ../db directory in Subversion
repositories. Scanning those for viruses isn't going to be very useful
anyway.

-- Brane

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