Hi there, On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, [email protected] wrote:
Unfortunately, it seems the ClamAV package from the Ubuntu 18.04 repositories still has a 30 second timeout by default. Having been bitten by this myself when first installing ClamAV a few months ago, and discussed on this list, I reported it on Ubuntu's bug tracker <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+bug/1927777>. But they seem reluctant to remove the timeout as an update to a stable release (preferring that pretty much everyone installing the package gets a non-functional default configuration?) and don't consider it a problem since there's an "easy workaround" (well, it's easy once you figure out that their default configuration has a stupidly short timeout!)
The package manager has a feature which can display a warning message after an update is performed. Perhaps that could say something like "The Ubuntu maintainers are unwilling to shoulder the responsibility for fixing this broken package. You can fix it yourself by commenting out the ReceiveTimeout line in the freshclam configuration file." :) -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
