Bug#761162: clamav-unofficial-sigs: Cron job results spread onto mail and logs

2014-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 20:45 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: Also, I don't feel that ignoring failed database downloads is prudent. Most admins what to know right away if there is a problem with a download site. When I get some time I'll take a look at the provided patch to see if any of the

Bug#761162: clamav-unofficial-sigs: Cron job results spread onto mail and logs

2014-10-16 Thread Bill Landry
Guys, please note that curl only downloads a SecuriteInfo database if the file has been updated. Checking for database updates will not get your IP banned; however, downloading the same databases over and over, even though there have been no updates, will cause your IP to get banned. Therefore,

Bug#761162: clamav-unofficial-sigs: Cron job results spread onto mail and logs

2014-09-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Fri 12/Sep/2014 02:46:06 +0200 Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 19:10 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: I'd rather suggest something along the lines of the attached patch (not tested). It should get rid of some cron spam. For reporting, I think libclamav does issue some warnings if

Bug#761162: clamav-unofficial-sigs: Cron job results spread onto mail and logs

2014-09-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Package: clamav-unofficial-sigs Version: 3.7.1-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, this bug is different from bug #704656, albeit similar: The issue here is the output of curl not redirected, rather than the output of clamscan not being redirected. I frequently receive mail to clamav@`hostname`

Bug#761162: clamav-unofficial-sigs: Cron job results spread onto mail and logs

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:42:53AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: I frequently receive mail to clamav@`hostname` from the Cron Daemon, saying curl: (28) connect() timed out!, one or more times. ... The missing info is how severe those warnings are. When have those files been last updated?

Bug#761162: clamav-unofficial-sigs: Cron job results spread onto mail and logs

2014-09-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 11/Sep/2014 12:20:11 +0200 Paul Wise wrote: Bill, would it be possible for you to update clamav-unofficial-sigs so that only signature downtime of more than one day is reported by the cron job? The current setup means that many admins are getting a lot of non-actionable cron spam,

Bug#761162: clamav-unofficial-sigs: Cron job results spread onto mail and logs

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 19:10 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: I'd rather suggest something along the lines of the attached patch (not tested). It should get rid of some cron spam. For reporting, I think libclamav does issue some warnings if a database is unacceptably old, not sure that covers