-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Noel. I've got to do more thinking on your explanation but I wanted to express appreciation for your time.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:08:06 -0600 Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derick Centeno wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > This is one of those little annoying logic problems one may have come > > across in examining truth tables and like conundrums within a > > philosophy class. I'll admit to the probability that I could be > > wrong. I'll explain my thoughts though regarding why I believe I'm > > right. > > > > Each of the two statements does something unique. One scans for > > signatures, default yes. The other scans URLs, also default yes. > > Each option is unique and not sequential or parallel or otherwise > > related to one or the other choice. > > > > Following my own reasoning, I comment them out. I expect that as a > > result that the signatures are not scanned because the option is not > > enabled. Similarly I also expect that the scans for URLs will not > > take place, as that option is not enabled. > > > > Sorry, this isn't a truth table, it's a program configuration > file. > > As noted in the documentation, the default value is "yes" [1]. > There is no difference in program behavior between > commenting out a value that defaults "yes" and explicitly > setting it to "yes" in the config file. > > > [1] There is another discussion that the default should be > "no", but that doesn't really have any bearing on this > particular discussion. The default is currently "yes", so set > it explicitly to "no" in clamd.conf if you don't want this > feature enabled. > > ========== "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music." "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHRFzENEKmdDLMbSsRAlkVAJ9RE3uApaO9bHllKd6oDaeibucxCACdHBbM m+PijeUJGLHKIVGph83xNnk= =hVd6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
