Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-22 Thread Philip Allison
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 11:06 -0500, Jim Maul wrote: In fact, apache, a far more common application than ClamAV, requires vastly more after-install configuration and management effort than does ClamAV, so his premise is farcical. Yes, but will it WORK without this after-install

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-13 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 at 1:14:38 +, Stephen Gran wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:23:22PM -0500, Tom Metro said: [...] It would also be nice to see the project leaders show a better attitude towards package maintainers. Not to say they necessarily have a poor attitude towards them,

RE: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-11 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Peterson Sent: vrijdag 10 november 2006 2:28 To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs If one cannot do what

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Folks, I have to say, of all the lists I subscribe to, the vocal members of this list are the most arrogant and insulting. However, I consider comments such as Luca Gibelli's, bandwidth wasting, We are happy to suffer this loss. and Dennis

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Jim Maul
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Folks, I have to say, of all the lists I subscribe to, the vocal members of this list are the most arrogant and insulting. However, I consider comments such as Luca Gibelli's, bandwidth wasting, We are happy to suffer

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jim Maul wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Folks, I have to say, of all the lists I subscribe to, the vocal members of this list are the most arrogant and insulting. However, I consider comments such as Luca Gibelli's, bandwidth wasting, We are

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Maul wrote: Maybe i missed it, but where in his original email did he ask anyone to help him by doing something for him? From what i can see, he didnt even ask for help at all. The way i took it was: Gee, I downloaded this package for

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Jim Maul
James Kosin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Maul wrote: Maybe i missed it, but where in his original email did he ask anyone to help him by doing something for him? From what i can see, he didnt even ask for help at all. The way i took it was: Gee, I downloaded

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:24 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Chris, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote: My observation is that of all the modern packages

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Jim Maul
Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Maul wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Folks, I have to say, of all the lists I subscribe to, the vocal members of this list are the most arrogant and insulting. However, I consider comments such as Luca Gibelli's,

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 9, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. His specific problem is he lacks the skill to install and manage the product.

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Jim Maul
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:24 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Chris, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote: My observation is that of

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Bart Silverstrim wrote: What you're talking about is hassle...if it's too much hassle, you move on to something else. That's fine and dandy. But there are many many many people who are using, for example, ClamAV without throwing a fit because there's too much in the conf

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread John Rudd
James Kosin wrote: Like Dennis said Bringing it all together is what the admin is for. I disagree. There are some things which are the admin's job, but they are not the catch-all for all unresolved burdens (bringing it all together). Pardon my lecture, but lets review the root of our

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Maul wrote: Are they really no package maintainers on this list? I find that hard to believe. Is it really necessary to punish someone for thinking that maybe, just maybe, a message about clamav packages on the clamav-users list might

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Maul wrote: somebody else wrote: Gee, I downloaded this package for clamav and installed it and now there are all sorts of other things that still need to be done to get it working correctly. Maybe clamav developers could work with the package

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Jim Maul
Dennis Peterson wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Maul wrote: somebody else wrote: Gee, I downloaded this package for clamav and installed it and now there are all sorts of other things that still need to be done to get it working correctly. Maybe clamav developers could work with the

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 10, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Jim Maul wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Folks, I have to say, of all the lists I subscribe to, the vocal members of this list are the most arrogant and insulting. However, I consider comments such as Luca

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread jef moskot
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:07 AM, jef moskot wrote: If some packages install without difficulty and others do not, then how about we work together to bring the less efficient packages in line with the more effective ones? Now see, that's a

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Gary V
Hmm, I wonder how many of the people who responded in one way or another is actually familiar with the package in question. I have been using Linux for a couple years now and have installed thousands of packages. In general, I have not had any problems navigating the package after it has

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:10 PM, jef moskot wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:07 AM, jef moskot wrote: If some packages install without difficulty and others do not, then how about we work together to bring the less efficient packages in line with the

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 10, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Gary V wrote: Hmm, I wonder how many of the people who responded in one way or another is actually familiar with the package in question. I have been using Linux for a couple years now and have installed thousands of packages. In general, I have not had any

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-10 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 10, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Gary V wrote: Hmm, I wonder how many of the people who responded in one way or another is actually familiar with the package in question. I have been using Linux for a couple years now and have installed thousands of packages. In

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Chris, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. I would disagree, in that I don't see

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Steve, Steve Holdoway wrote: You really do need to get out of the mindset that you don't actually need to know what you're doing to administer a server. It is *NOT* a trivial task, requires skills to support it, and years of experience to

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Jim Redman
Folks, I have to say, of all the lists I subscribe to, the vocal members of this list are the most arrogant and insulting. However, I consider comments such as Luca Gibelli's, bandwidth wasting, We are happy to suffer this loss. and Dennis Peterson's His specific problem is he lacks the

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:24 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Jim Redman wrote: Chris, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote: My observation is that of all the modern packages ClamAV fails to install and run successfully

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Daniel J McDonald wrote: My observation is that of all the modern packages ClamAV fails to install and run successfully and securely without operator intervention. I think that this should be refined to reference Fedora packages and perhaps not all of them.

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread John Hinton
Jim Redman wrote: snippage I no longer possess the desire to build Linux systems from scratch, or to customize them so heavily that I cannot benefit from the work of some of the greats in the community, although I may occasionally humbly make suggestions that I think might be of benefit

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread tBB
Jim Redman wrote: I have to say, of all the lists I subscribe to, the vocal members of this list are the most arrogant and insulting. However, I consider comments such as Luca Gibelli's, bandwidth wasting, We are happy to suffer this loss. and Dennis Peterson's His specific problem is he

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Metro
Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. His specific problem is he lacks the skill to install and manage the product. It's rather sad to see that this elitist

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread John Rudd
tBB wrote: I'm sorry for the probably arrogant and insulting tone but you're literally asking for it. Perhaps he is asking for it, but he's also right. ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Stephen Gran
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:23:22PM -0500, Tom Metro said: Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. His specific problem is he lacks the skill to install and manage

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. His specific problem is he lacks the skill to install and manage the product. It's rather sad to see that this

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-09 Thread Bit Fuzzy
My god! This topic hasn't been killed yet?!? ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

RE: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
John Rudd wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: My not-so-automated update process looks like this: wget (link to current clamav-XXX.tar.gz) tar xzf clamav-XXX.tar.gz cd clamav-XXX configure --disable-zlib-vcheck make su make install service clamav restart service

RE: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jim Redman wrote: James, James Kosin wrote: 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

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
My not-so-automated update process looks like this: wget (link to current clamav-XXX.tar.gz) tar xzf clamav-XXX.tar.gz cd clamav-XXX configure --disable-zlib-vcheck make su make install service clamav restart service freshclam restart You would be wise to uninstall the previous

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Jim Redman
Bowie, Bowie Bailey wrote: Hassle? My not-so-automated update process looks like this: wget (link to current clamav-XXX.tar.gz) tar xzf clamav-XXX.tar.gz cd clamav-XXX configure --disable-zlib-vcheck make su make install service clamav restart service freshclam restart The obvious

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:43:11 -0700 Jim Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bowie, Bowie Bailey wrote: Hassle? My not-so-automated update process looks like this: wget (link to current clamav-XXX.tar.gz) tar xzf clamav-XXX.tar.gz cd clamav-XXX configure --disable-zlib-vcheck

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bowie, The obvious observation that while this might work for you it's not a general solution, so now everyone needs to create a script. F'chrissake... It is trivial to do this. Less than 10 minutes, start to stop. I wrote the script I use 3 years and it took just minutes. I have 10 mail

RE: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Barry Gill
If it runs out of cron it runs for just milli- seconds - other wise it is in the proc table Assuming of course that you don't end up with hundreds of spawned cron jons. For some reason, I have seen more often than I care to think, multiple cron jobs firing off freshclam and then not hanging up.

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Craig Morrison
Dennis Peterson wrote: My not-so-automated update process looks like this: wget (link to current clamav-XXX.tar.gz) tar xzf clamav-XXX.tar.gz cd clamav-XXX configure --disable-zlib-vcheck make su make install service clamav restart service freshclam restart You would be wise to uninstall the

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Jim Redman
Steve, Steve Holdoway wrote: You really do need to get out of the mindset that you don't actually need to know what you're doing to administer a server. It is *NOT* a trivial task, requires skills to support it, and years of experience to do it well. Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. I would disagree, in that I don't see it as suffering. Forgive me if I missed it, but what is your specific problem ? Perhaps we

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Jim Redman
Chris, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. I would disagree, in that I don't see it as suffering. Forgive me if I missed it, but

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
You would be wise to uninstall the previous installation so that you don't end up with split versions. The man pages have not always been consistent nor have library names, and uninstall (make uninstall) helps prevent this. This only serves to illustrate the OP's point. I agree -

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
If it runs out of cron it runs for just milli- seconds - other wise it is in the proc table Assuming of course that you don't end up with hundreds of spawned cron jons. rocket science Run the following fc.sh script from cron every hour #!/bin/sh # usage: fc.sh [now] # Any argument will

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jim Redman wrote: Your opinions, seem to be the prevalent attitude of the vocal members of this list - if you don't suffer, it wasn't worth it. I would disagree, in that I don't see it as suffering. Forgive me if I missed it, but what is your specific problem

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread John Rudd
Dennis Peterson wrote: My not-so-automated update process looks like this: wget (link to current clamav-XXX.tar.gz) tar xzf clamav-XXX.tar.gz cd clamav-XXX configure --disable-zlib-vcheck make su make install service clamav restart service freshclam restart You would be wise to uninstall the

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread John Rudd
Dennis Peterson wrote: Bowie, The obvious observation that while this might work for you it's not a general solution, so now everyone needs to create a script. F'chrissake... It is trivial to do this. Less than 10 minutes, start to stop. I wrote the script I use 3 years and it took just

Re: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Dennis Peterson
John Rudd wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Bowie, The obvious observation that while this might work for you it's not a general solution, so now everyone needs to create a script. F'chrissake... It is trivial to do this. Less than 10 minutes, start to stop. I wrote the script I use 3 years and