Hi William, > Is your initial installation rpm based or not. If it is not rpm based, how did you upgrade and what should I look out for when upgrading?
No it was based on the most current version at the time which was 0.73 I think. But since then I have in place upgraded it to 0.80,81,82 and finally 83 without fuss. I just rebuild clamav from the source tgz once the new stable version appears. I usually test it on my desktop machines first before uploading it the servers I am responsible for. I would look out for problems with the .conf file maybe being overwritten and pointing to the wrong, but if you originally compiled from the source tgz I don't think this will be a problem. Apart from that maybe just Item 4 on the clamav.net faq ;-) http://www.clamav.net/faq.html#pagestart > This is a critical machine and I have almost zero room for errors(at least those that would interrupt the mail functions it is performing). Any chance then of getting another machine, to rebuild in the image of the production server and test this out? Would be a good disaster recovery practise. Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lule George William Sent: 14 March 2005 16:16 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LUG] Updating clamAV Hello all, Allow me to answer both Mark and Simon in this mail. For Mark: The OS is SuSE 7.2 Kernel 2.4.4-4GB > Hi William, > > In all honesty I would find a way to upgrade the antivirus. Sure Simon, and there are some I came across, but as earlier mentioned, all were outlining upgrading procedures for rpm based installations, not tar.gz installations. >I just upgraded > to 0.83 on Mandrake 10 and it is running fine. Is your initial installation rpm based or not. If it is not rpm based, how did you upgrade and what should I look out for when upgrading? This is a critical machine and I have almost zero room for errors(at least those that would interrupt the mail functions it is performing). > They seem to do this from time to time to force you to upgrade as >often they are fixing security bugs. Great. >Is Mailscanner locked to 0.7 or any version? > Nothing of that sort is mentioned in its documentation. > Simon > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Lule George William > Sent: 14 March 2005 15:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LUG] Updating clamAV > > Hello all, > I have clamAV 0.70 on my main mail server, but this morning when I run > freshclam, I got the following error(it will be shown shortly). On googling, > I got to know that it is brought about because a newer version of clamAV is > available (cool!) but all the ways of updating that I found out were for rpm > based installations. Unfortunately for me, I used the tar.gz from clamav.net > and so far all indicators are for a re-install. Now I wouldn't like to > tinker with this system so I am wondering whether anyone has had this > problem before and could give me some guidelines on how to proceed. My > worries are further compounded by the fact that I am also running a tar.gz > installation of MailScanner that is relying on this clamAV installation! Any > suggestions? > > The error is here below: > > ===========================Begin error message====================== > postmaster1:~ # freshclam ClamAV update process started at Mon Mar 14 > 14:38:21 2005 SECURITY WARNING: NO SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL SIGNATURES Connecting > via xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK main.cvd is up to date > (version: 30, sigs: 31086, f-level: 4, builder: > tkojm) > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately ! > WARNING: Current functionality level = 2, required = 4 Connecting via > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Reading CVD header (daily.cvd): OK daily.cvd is up to date > (version: 762, sigs: 520, f-level: 4, builder: > ccordes) > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately ! > WARNING: Current functionality level = 2, required = 4 postmaster1:~ # > ========================End of error================================ > > ************************************************************************ > Lule George William (Mr) > Network and Systems Administrator > Cisco Program Co-ordinator > Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi > P.O. Box 5498 Kampala > Uganda > /* If you are not living and learning, then you are dumb and dying*/ > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > ************************************************************************ Lule George William (Mr) Network and Systems Administrator Cisco Program Co-ordinator Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi P.O. Box 5498 Kampala Uganda /* If you are not living and learning, then you are dumb and dying*/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
