Re: [Clamav-users] 0.96 compile warnings on FreeBSD 7.1

2010-04-18 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/18/2010 12:14 AM, jef moskot wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Török Edwin wrote: Is g++ the same version too (i.e. does g++ -v shows 4.2.1 too?). Yep, same deal: # g++ --version g++ (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD] For the record, no checks failed, although some were skipped: make

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Jim Preston wrote: Over here, if I step out into traffic and get hit it is my fault. But suppose you walk out across a crossing where the WALK is lit (green man over here) and the traffic has a red light - but someone screams through ignoring the red light and gets you ? That is a better

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Dan wrote: Yes, some updates can be problematic. But in this case, surely, there were updates during the year that worked just fine. In most cases, tho, I'm thinking the people complaining slacked off completely - unlike you, they didn't even bother to test the releases. And cf todays

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Stephen Gran
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:50:09AM +0100, Simon Hobson said: Dan wrote: Yes, some updates can be problematic. But in this case, surely, there were updates during the year that worked just fine. In most cases, tho, I'm thinking the people complaining slacked off completely - unlike you,

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
In response to your example, that was a DOS attack and is illegal. Microsoft updates have causes systems including servers to fail and crash, should you be petitioning to have Microsoft prosecuted under this law? It happens. Anyway, the fact is that you keep comparing two different thing.

[Clamav-users] Empy queue

2010-04-18 Thread _beb_
Hi everyone, I didn't know about the update, and it has been such a mess. It's okay, now. Emails in/out going. The thing is: what about the thousands of emails still in the /var/spool/qscan/working/new and /var/spool/qscan/tmp directories? Is there a way to reinject all of them as new emails?

[Clamav-users] Thanks for the weekend entertainment

2010-04-18 Thread Cody Konior
I don't want to stay quiet anymore though :) I see people posting as systems administrators who are acting more like consultants in disguise. Fairly consistently they're the ones saying they've been wronged, being abusive, threatening physical harm, and appear to have no love or passion for

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Stephen Gran wrote: You seem to be massively missing the point. In a short while, there will be signatures in the database that will have the same effect for older versions of clamd, because they will trigger the same bug. Which way would you prefer clamd to die - with a helpful error

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm;ThankYou

2010-04-18 Thread Si St
OK. That clearyfied most of it. I had to uninstall from YaST both clamav and database in order to manage an update with none-RC. The rpm-update from console would only receive a newer RC (from 18 to 19) and not the appearently newer none-RC clamav. And a console rpm-erase would not properly

Re: [Clamav-users] Empy queue

2010-04-18 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:59, _beb_ s...@me.com wrote: Hi everyone, I didn't know about the update, and it has been such a mess. It's okay, now. Emails in/out going. The thing is: what about the thousands of emails still in the /var/spool/qscan/working/new and /var/spool/qscan/tmp

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:37:19 +0100 Stephen Gran st...@lobefin.net wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:50:09AM +0100, Simon Hobson said: Dan wrote: Yes, some updates can be problematic. But in this case, surely, there were updates during the year that worked just fine. In most cases,

Re: [Clamav-users] Thanks for the weekend entertainment

2010-04-18 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Giampaolo, you're one of us. You may have a dissenting opinion, but otherwise you're level headed and logical and seem to have some passion for your job. So, you're cool in my book. Thank you, Cody, for your good words: I needed some... :) Giampaolo

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Simon Hobson wrote: And you can cut the crap about well you should have configured your system to not stop when ClamAV stopped - that's rubbish because it's already been made perfectly clear right at the start of one of these threads that the project team consider any

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-18 Thread neidorff
Thanks. That did help. Now I'm getting a problem starting the daemon. The error that I am getting is: [r...@neidorff ~]# /etc/init.d/clamd start Starting Clam AV daemon: ERROR: Missing argument for option at line 33 ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: In response to your example, that was a DOS attack and is illegal. Microsoft updates have causes systems including servers to fail and crash, should you be petitioning to have Microsoft prosecuted under this law? It happens. Anyway, the fact is that you keep

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm;ThankYou

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
Si St wrote: OK. That clearyfied most of it. I had to uninstall from YaST both clamav and database in order to manage an update with none-RC. The rpm-update from console would only receive a newer RC (from 18 to 19) and not the appearently newer none-RC clamav. And a console rpm-erase would

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
neidorff wrote: Thanks. That did help. Now I'm getting a problem starting the daemon. The error that I am getting is: [r...@neidorff ~]# /etc/init.d/clamd start Starting Clam AV daemon: ERROR: Missing argument for option at line 33 ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:14 AM, neidorff wrote: Thanks. That did help. Now I'm getting a problem starting the daemon. The error that I am getting is: [r...@neidorff ~]# /etc/init.d/clamd start Starting Clam AV daemon: ERROR: Missing argument for option at line 33 ERROR: Can't open/parse the

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:14 AM, neidorff wrote: Thanks. That did help. Now I'm getting a problem starting the daemon. The error that I am getting is: [r...@neidorff ~]# /etc/init.d/clamd start Starting Clam AV daemon: ERROR: Missing argument for option at line 33 ERROR:

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm; ThankYou Jim Preston

2010-04-18 Thread Si St
I am aware of the force-option in rpm, but I did not want to use it before as a last resort. I also usually download manually the new clamav packages and install them from console, and it usually works fine except in the case of this RC without the force-argument. But that is over now as I

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm; ThankYou Jim Preston

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
Si St wrote: I am aware of the force-option in rpm, but I did not want to use it before as a last resort. I also usually download manually the new clamav packages and install them from console, and it usually works fine except in the case of this RC without the force-argument. But that is

[Clamav-users] The news keeps getting better

2010-04-18 Thread lists
___ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:082 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ ___ Package : clamav Date: April 18, 2010

[Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Hauke Duden
Hello all, I just compiled and installed a fresh version of clamav (0.96) from source on an Ubuntu box (8.10). Compiling and installing went well. I also ran the unit tests and they all passed. But I then did a full scan of the machine and got lots and lots of warnings like this:

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-18 Thread neidorff
On 4/18/10, Jim Preston jimli...@commspeed.net wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:14 AM, neidorff wrote: Thanks. That did help. Now I'm getting a problem starting the daemon. The error that I am getting is: [r...@neidorff ~]# /etc/init.d/clamd start Starting Clam AV

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Török Edwin
On 2010-04-18 22:39, Hauke Duden wrote: Hello all, I just compiled and installed a fresh version of clamav (0.96) from source on an Ubuntu box (8.10). Compiling and installing went well. I also ran the unit tests and they all passed. But I then did a full scan of the machine and got lots

Re: [Clamav-users] The news keeps getting better

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:56 AM, lists wrote: ___ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:082 http://www.mandriva.com/security/

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 18, 2010, at 12:46 PM, neidorff wrote: On 4/18/10, Jim Preston jimli...@commspeed.net wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:14 AM, neidorff wrote: Thanks. That did help. Now I'm getting a problem starting the daemon. The error that I am getting is: [r...@neidorff

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Spiro Harvey
Shame you haven't talked to to others - like havp for example - before doing this. The announcement to EOL the old releases was made at the start of october last year. If people using clam as an integral part of their software don't read announcements, what fault is that of the clam developers?

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Spiro Harvey
1) If it aint broke, don't fix it. It works, has worked reliably for several years, and was working fine yesterday. It's uptime is And now it's broken. So you have to fix it. Life on the edge is scary for some sysadmins, eh? currently 405 days, and then the last downtime was to physically

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/18/10 1:27 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: Shame you haven't talked to to others - like havp for example - before doing this. The announcement to EOL the old releases was made at the start of october last year. If people using clam as an integral part of their software don't read announcements,

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Ken Campney
Sh They've simmered down, I don't need the issue stirred up again Spiro Harvey wrote: Shame you haven't talked to to others - like havp for example - before doing this. The announcement to EOL the old releases was made at the start of october last year. If people using clam as an

Re: [Clamav-users] Big problem (Malformed database) after update to 0.96

2010-04-18 Thread Sim
# /usr/sbin/clamd LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdload: Corrupted CVD header LibClamAV Error: Can't load /usr/local/share/clamav/daily.cvd: Malformed database ERROR: Malformed database Closing the main socket. Did you get this resolved? Sending this off-list on purpose as it would just be noise

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 18, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Ken Campney wrote: Sh They've simmered down, I don't need the issue stirred up again Spiro Harvey wrote: Shame you haven't talked to to others - like havp for example - before doing this. The announcement to EOL the old releases was made at the start of

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Hauke Duden
On 18 Apr 2010, at 21:47, Török Edwin wrote: On 2010-04-18 22:39, Hauke Duden wrote: Compiling and installing went well. I also ran the unit tests and they all passed. But I then did a full scan of the machine and got lots and lots of warnings like this: LibClamAV Warning: pread fail:

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Ken Campney
yup, that's me, though in all honesty the comment was supposed to read They've simmered down, I don't think the issue needs stirring up again Proof reading is a wonderful thing when not practiced in moderation :\ And you run the risk of being called the most arrogant and ignorant person on

Re: [Clamav-users] (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Preston
On Apr 18, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Ken Campney wrote: yup, that's me, though in all honesty the comment was supposed to read They've simmered down, I don't think the issue needs stirring up again Proof reading is a wonderful thing when not practiced in moderation :\ And you run the risk of

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Chris Meadors
On 4/18/2010 5:16 PM, Hauke Duden wrote: I did what you asked me to do and it seems that the problem is not in clamav. The files in question are marked as having a size of 4096, but when I open them I only get a few bytes of data. The strange thing is that they are all in /sys. Some in

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/18/10 3:11 PM, Hauke Duden wrote: OK. Sorry for the confusion. Shouldn't this be in the FAQ (or was I just too blind to find it?)? I'd hate to think that I am the only one making this mistake. ClamAV is an antivirus tool. It is reasonable to expect it will be used on file systems

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: And you can cut the crap about well you should have configured your system to not stop when ClamAV stopped - that's rubbish because it's already been made perfectly clear right at the start of one of these threads that the project team consider any

Re: [Clamav-users] Thanks for the weekend entertainment

2010-04-18 Thread Simon Hobson
Cody Konior wrote: I don't know Simon, though I can't help but see his attitude and comments as a reflection of some other consultants / systems administrators whom I intensely dislike. Then I think you have got the wrong impression of what I do and how I do it. If it's any consolation

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Hauke Duden
On 19 Apr 2010, at 00:22, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 4/18/10 3:11 PM, Hauke Duden wrote: OK. Sorry for the confusion. Shouldn't this be in the FAQ (or was I just too blind to find it?)? I'd hate to think that I am the only one making this mistake. ClamAV is an antivirus tool. It is

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-18 Thread Spiro Harvey
So ClamAV as a package won't silently 'not work' for the safety of users - and this has been the justification for their approach to this issue. But at the very same time they are recommending a setup which will silently not scan mail if there's a problem with ClamAV. I guess it depends on

[Clamav-users] /tmp/ directory filling up

2010-04-18 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Dear people, I have seen a couple of threads related to a version upgrade of clamav. I was running clamav v0.94 and suddenly experienced a harddisk that started filling up with clamav folders with names like /tmp/clamav-63f56fc3114e9716 . This caused my mail server (and websites) to stop

Re: [Clamav-users] The news keeps getting better

2010-04-18 Thread aCaB
lists wrote: Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in clamav: Guys, just a bit of generic (i.e. not specific to the above) background about such evasion advisories. How it works aka how to get fame and glory with no effort (nor skills): 1. Pick up eicar.com and pack it up with

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni giampa...@tomassoni.biz: In 6 months there were many clamav updates. I would have put the Signature updates, yes, but not code updates. To make any changes, you need code updates, not signature updates. But then, we've about beat this horse to death... -- Eric

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-18 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com: And really, the whole idea of eol'ing GPL software is really violating the moral ground. And that is what makes people upset. Almost every GPL software does a EOL system. Unless you mean EOL via kill-bit then this statement doesn't make