[Clamav-users] activate clamdscan

2010-04-17 Thread Sanjay Pothen
I have installed the calm daemon from the synaptic package manager.but when i use the command line to scan using the command calmdscan, i get error message .please help me activate clamdscan. Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now!

Re: [Clamav-users] activate clamdscan

2010-04-17 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/17/2010 10:14 AM, Sanjay Pothen wrote: I have installed the calm daemon from the synaptic package manager.but when i use the command line to scan using the command calmdscan, The daemon is called ClamAV daemon (clamd), and the client is called clamdscan, not calmdscan. i get error

Re: [Clamav-users] FreeBSD 6.2 ClamAV/zlib problems and solution

2010-04-17 Thread Odhiambo Washington
2010/4/16 Török Edwin edwinto...@gmail.com Hi, I just had a chat on #clamav with 2 people having problem with ClamAV 0.96 on FreeBSD 6.2. (everything was OK on FreeBSD 6.3) The symptom is that clamscan/clamd never starts, just loops infinitely trying to load the DB, --debug shows:

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Giampaolo Tomassoni, Am 2010-04-16 17:55:16, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: Maybe this happened, but I had two calls in the morning about this, for maybe five mailing systems which stopped working. Most of them are not easily upgradeable. After all, I can't care it the less. But what

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:25:24 -0500 Eric Rostetter rostet...@mail.utexas.edu wrote: Quoting Leonardo Rodrigues leolis...@solutti.com.br: it's VERY common in the software industry to stop supporting old versions, but they simply stay working. For six months, you've been told to

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Hello Giampaolo Tomassoni, Hello Michelle, It depends on what youmean with five small companies. Here I have a bunch of such small companies with 3-5 employees... where I maintain the Intranet-Server. And since they are All-In-One- Systems, one failure could take down the whole

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Obviously neither side of the discussion can be convinced. It would possibly be a good idea to through in some more general thoughts about GPL'ed software. If I understood RMS' basic intention right he is all for the freedom of the _user_. This basically means no software vendor or supplier

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Giampaolo Tomassoni, Am 2010-04-16 20:25:55, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: The way the clamav team managed this case hits the open software community as a whole, being the ClamAV project a well-known member of that community. No, -- it hit a minority of ignorants! Thanks, Greetings

[Clamav-users] ClamAV over Network

2010-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello ClamAV experts, I run 4 dedicated Sun Fire X4100M2 (Dual CPU, Quad-Core, 16 GByte of memory) as courier-mta-proxy with ClamAV and SpamAssassin but the machines sucking to much energy. Now I want to use some smaller networked machines which are Marvell Kirkwood MV78200 with 2

Re: [Clamav-users] error in make

2010-04-17 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/17/2010 06:14 PM, neidorff wrote: On 4/17/10, neidorffneido...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/17/10, Török Edwinedwinto...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/2010 05:12 PM, neidorff wrote: Help, please. My system is old--Fedora Core 3--but it has been working as a mail server (qmail from and

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

2010-04-17 Thread Török Edwin
On 04/17/2010 07:25 PM, jef moskot wrote: Hi, all. I was on vacation for a bit and then wanted to wait for the EOL storm to blow over. I never actually got any response to my original question, which got sidetracked by a discussion of the FreeBSD port system. At any rate, the original

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Dan
At 2:14 PM +0100 4/16/2010, Simon Hobson wrote: I hope that by now you may be realising that many people quite legitimately did not know anything until things broke this morning. We did not have 6 months notice - our servers just broke. I'm sorry, did I miss something? This should be a

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: I do not want to be you customer after reading your messages here in this Mailinglsts, because I show, you have not a singel clue about importance of software parts... I'm still waiting for you to show something, moron. Giampaolo Good Morning

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Stephen Gran
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni said: I'm still waiting for you to show something, moron. Can the listmoms please throttle or remove this guy? This is roughly 50 messages containing the same rant over the last several days. There is no argument that needs to be

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Stephen Gran
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 07:53:49PM +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni said: Would you please show me the 50 messages you speak about? Thanks. I see off hand: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:15:45PM +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni said: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:12:15PM +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni said: On

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:15:45PM +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni said: ... omissis ... On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 03:56:38PM +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni said: Fine. You filed your request. Now the maillist admins will decide if I was runting, there. And will take action if needed. Ok?

[Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread lists
Lots of interesting views. Yes, people should have updated. However, this act of maliciously killing critical servers to score a point is the kind of thing malware writers do. It is also illegal in the UK under the computer misuse act. Insisting they update 'or else' is blackmail. Here we have two

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
lists wrote: Lots of interesting views. Yes, people should have updated. However, this act of maliciously killing critical servers to score a point is the kind of thing malware writers do. It is also illegal in the UK under the computer misuse act. Insisting they update 'or else' is blackmail.

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Simon Hobson wrote: lists wrote: Lots of interesting views. Yes, people should have updated. However, this act of maliciously killing critical servers to score a point is the kind of thing malware writers do. It is also illegal in the UK under the computer misuse act. Insisting they update 'or

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Ralf Quint
At 01:14 PM 4/17/2010, Jim Preston wrote: First, anyones system that stopped sending mail, it was not a malicious act just that their system can not handle the signature update that was sent out. Secondly, they all had both the chance to update before it happened OR configure their systems to

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Hobson
Dan wrote: So keeping up to date has it's own risks - hence why many people take the attitude of if it aint broke, don't fix it. But being a YEAR out of date? Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Like I said, there ARE legitimate reasons for not always updating every bit of software

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Simon Hobson wrote: Jim Preston wrote: According to this reasoning, I know of website that consistently causes browsers to shut down. This website is a legitimate business site, Should this site be prosecuted under this law? In response to your example, that was a DOS attack and is illegal.

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Ralf Quint wrote: At 01:14 PM 4/17/2010, Jim Preston wrote: First, anyones system that stopped sending mail, it was not a malicious act just that their system can not handle the signature update that was sent out. Secondly, they all had both the chance to update before it happened OR

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread tBB
lists wrote: Anything else I can help you with? Don't let the door hit you on the way out. -- Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? ___ Help us build a

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Dan
At 9:39 PM +0100 4/17/2010, Simon Hobson wrote: Dan wrote: So keeping up to date has it's own risks - hence why many people take the attitude of if it aint broke, don't fix it. But being a YEAR out of date? Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Like I said, there ARE legitimate reasons

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

2010-04-17 Thread jef moskot
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 check-TESTS PASS: check_clamav PASS:

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Jim Preston wrote: ...snip.. According to this reasoning, I know of website that consistently causes browsers to shut down. This website is a legitimate business site, Should this site be prosecuted under this law? In response to your

Re: [Clamav-users] EOL

2010-04-17 Thread Ralf Quint
At 02:03 PM 4/17/2010, Jim Preston wrote: Ralf Quint wrote: How can people trust any Open Source software if someone else decides at will which operational systems are being shut down, which services are being interrupted. By configuring your systems to be tolerant of such failures of

[Clamav-users] clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm

2010-04-17 Thread Si St
Whats the difference between: clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm and: clamav-0.96-27.1.i586.rpm ? I am thinking of the RC specification of the package. Which one should I choose for my SLED_10_SP3? I have usually installed and updated the rpms without the RC specification, but by a coincidence I chose

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Ralf Quint
At 02:09 PM 4/17/2010, Dan wrote: Those two lines look fairly clear to me. Essentially they're telling you to get moving, get the update onto your to-be-done list. This is, of course, re-enforced by the repeated EOL announcements on Clam-announce. I can think of two other ways this could

[Clamav-users] LibClamAV Error: Can't load /usr/share/clamav/daily.cvd: Malformed database

2010-04-17 Thread Christian Gonzalez
Hi list, As many, I've been affected by 0.94 EOL process. I successfully upgraded Clamav to 0.96 version but I'm still suffering from not being able to use it. I got this error: # /usr/sbin/clamd LibClamAV debug: Initialized 0.96 engine LibClamAV debug: Initializing phishcheck module LibClamAV

Re: [Clamav-users] LibClamAV Error: Can't load /usr/share/clamav/daily.cvd: Malformed database

2010-04-17 Thread aCaB
Christian Gonzalez wrote: Hi list, As many, I've been affected by 0.94 EOL process. I successfully upgraded Clamav to 0.96 version but I'm still suffering from not being able to use it. I got this error: Hi Christian, please open a ticket at http://bugs.clamav.net Just copy/paste the info

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

2010-04-17 Thread aCaB
Si St wrote: Whats the difference between: clamav-0.96rc1-19.1.i586.rpm and: clamav-0.96-27.1.i586.rpm ? The RC is a release canditate package. It was issued before the final 0.96 release (the non-RC package). I am thinking of the RC specification of the package. Which one should I choose

Re: [Clamav-users] LibClamAV Error: Can't load /usr/share/clamav/daily.cvd: Malformed database

2010-04-17 Thread Christian Gonzalez
Christian Gonzalez wrote: Hi list, As many, I've been affected by 0.94 EOL process. I successfully upgraded Clamav to 0.96 version but I'm still suffering from not being able to use it. I got this error: Hi Christian, please open a ticket at http://bugs.clamav.net Just copy/paste the

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV over Network

2010-04-17 Thread aCaB
Michelle Konzack wrote: SpamAssassin works already, but what must I do if I like to use ClamAV over network with 4-12 scanning machines?. Hi Michelle, a definite answer would require a better knowledge about your environment. Also I'm not a courier-mta user. However here are some generic

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Ralf Quint wrote: At 02:09 PM 4/17/2010, Dan wrote: Those two lines look fairly clear to me. Essentially they're telling you to get moving, get the update onto your to-be-done list. This is, of course, re-enforced by the repeated EOL announcements on Clam-announce. I can think of two

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Dan
At 2:30 PM -0700 4/17/2010, Ralf Quint wrote: At 02:09 PM 4/17/2010, Dan wrote: Yea, I agree, the Clam team probably could have done things better. But would more announcements or warnings have really made a difference? Why would the people, that regularly ignore the Freshclam warnings, pay

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Preston
Dan wrote: At 2:30 PM -0700 4/17/2010, Ralf Quint wrote: At 02:09 PM 4/17/2010, Dan wrote: Yea, I agree, the Clam team probably could have done things better. But would more announcements or warnings have really made a difference? Why would the people, that regularly ignore the Freshclam

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-17 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/17/10 9:03 PM, Jim Preston wrote: I whole heartedly agree Dan. However I have been slandered today being called arrogant and ignorant, so what do I know? Yutz on the left, mench on the right. This EOL process has been a test. It was a simple test to separate yutz from mench. If you