On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:12:03 -0700
Jim Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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My take on your post is that installing software blindly on a multi-user system
is at best irresponsible. On a workstation on your desk, the effects of your
actions are limited to you alone. This is not the case on a
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Jim Redman wrote:
Of all the packages I install (Fedora), clamav is the only modern
package that fails to install and just work.
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Jim
You are ranting to the wrong group of people. ClamAV has nothing to
do with RPM packages or
Steve,
Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:12:03 -0700
Jim Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
My take on your post is that installing software blindly on a multi-user system
is at best irresponsible. On a workstation on your desk, the effects of your
actions are limited to you
James,
James Kosin wrote:
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Jim Redman wrote:
Of all the packages I install (Fedora), clamav is the only modern
package that fails to install and just work.
-- snip --
Jim
You are ranting to the wrong group of people. ClamAV has nothing to
Jim Redman wrote:
Of all the packages I install (Fedora), clamav is the only modern
package that fails to install and just work.
-- snip --
Jim
You are ranting to the wrong group of people. ClamAV has nothing to
do with RPM packages or maintaining Fedora releases of the extra
packages they
I WANT to know NOTHING about ClamAV, I wish to remain ignorant. I even
trust the folks who produce RPMs to come up with reasonable defaults for
file locations, max sizes, etc. etc. etc. As _IS_ the case with just
about every other install.
You have obviously been very successful in
Hello Jim,
Instead the packages need me to learn some of the inner workings of
ClamAV and FreshClam (forget editing the conf files, the packages don't
even seem to work together out of the box), and since I really don't
care about learning this, I'm going to get as far as making it work
What seems entirely bizarre about Fedora's ClamAV packages is that they
don't use freshclam in daemon mode, they use cron to run it. There's a
perfectly good tool provided that does all the necessary things to link
freshclam to clamd, and they don't use it.
If you run freshclam as a
James,
James Kosin wrote:
Unfortunately, if they are a brain-dead sysadmin, I drought they would
know what to do with a VIRUS if ClamAV found one. Remember, ClamAV
will find viruses, but, not clean them from infected programs.
This is a good point, I would argue that the default in this
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:57:23 -0800 (PST)
Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What seems entirely bizarre about Fedora's ClamAV packages is that they
don't use freshclam in daemon mode, they use cron to run it. There's a
perfectly good tool provided that does all the necessary
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:57:23 -0800 (PST)
Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I accept your points Dennis, I'm just puzzled that people have so much
trouble with freshclam daemons. I have used it for years and find it
100% reliable after a few problems with settings in the early
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