On 16.04.10 11:41, Simon Hobson wrote: > Subject: [Clamav-users] Debian Sarge - what now ? > To: [email protected] > > OK, so I get into work this morning to be told there's a problem with > the mail server - and the helpdesk have had calls from several clients > who aren't getting any mail.
Sarge? Sarge is obsolete for over two years. Etch (next version) is obsolete for two months. Lenny is the current version. > To which my first reaction is WTF ? > > So I find that **without warning** my mail server has been remotely disabled. > > Yes, I do mean **WITHOUT WARNING** - there has not, at any point, been > anything remotely resembling any warning that things were going to be > turned off. A notice on your website doesn't count unless you think it's > reasonable for all admins to have to visit the project website for all > their packages on a regular basis just in case the project plans > something crazy like remotely disabling your server ! You should read at least debian-announce and debian-security announce, if you want to keep up. Both lists are quite low-traffic. If you want to stay up with current version of packages, you should also read debian-volatile >> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! >> WARNING: Local version: 0.92.1 Recommended version: 0.96 >> DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq > doesn't count as any sort of warning that things WILL BE TURNED OFF this is not the warning. > What's more, the language of the notice that I have now seen makes it > quite clear that you knew **BEFORE** you did this what the effects would > be. >> This move is needed to push more people to upgrade to 0.95 > This makes it quite clear that there are still a lot of people running > the older version, so it's hard to imagine what sort of response you > expected from people. They apparently wanted them to upgrade to newer version of clamav. > Anyway, rant over, how to move forward. The mail server is running > Debian Sarge, and upgrading is not an option for now - that's why it's > still running Sarge. Even if it were running Lenny, then the stable > version in that is still affected. I have a newer server built, but I > won't have the hardware to run it on for a few months. > 0.95 won't install - unmet dependencies and I'm not going to try > manually frigging stuff on a production server to work round that. I guess you are using volatile (0.92.1 vas in volatile for sarge), the version in volatile works, both for etch and lenny. Just FYI -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [email protected] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
