[Zope-dev] os.system problem

[Arjan Huizer]

Hi,

I have created an external method that is called when I upload a file. =
This external method will execute the validate_file function from my =
python file in the Extensions directory.=20

The script creates a file and tries to see if it contains a virus. It =
does run, but after creating the file, the os.system and os.remove =
commands do not seem to do anything. When I copy the relevant code from =
the script to a python file and run it on the server directly, the code =
works.=20

Does anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks in advance!


p.s. I am running Zope 2.6.1 with CMF 1.3 on a Linux box.

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import os

def validate_file(file):
    '''
    Check is file contains a virus.
    '''

    filename =3D "/usr/local/Zope/temp/temp.bin"

    # Write the file to the local filesystem
    temp =3D open(filename, "wb")
    temp.write(file.read())
    temp.flush

    # Call virus checker
    error_level =3D os.system("f-prot " + filename)

    # Delete temp file
    os.remove(filename)

    return error_level;