Arkady V.Belousov said: > Hi! > > 7-ñÎ×-2005 07:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J McDonald) wrote > to > ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>: > >>> >> >> "Fetch" from where (without online)? (BTW, updates for my >>> >> My English is poor, but me looks, that above is irony/sarcasm. >>> Don't >>> >> understand, why online access should/must be only one way to receive >>> updates. >>> DJM> Well... clamav is usually used to protect e-mail. if you can >>> break it >>> First: I myself mean, that _I_ receive updates and _I_ place them >>> into >>> ClamAV directories (directly by hands or indirectly through my own >>> utilities >>> and batch files/scripts). > DJM> That's fine - download them from the internet > > How? Is there ftp? Is there email lists (which sends updated bases > directly, not only notification about "what new in last updated")? Is > there > local (to me) BBSes? > > DJM> and toss them on a web server, > > Again. :( My machine have no web server runned and I doubt that it > will. > > (Does this mean, that ClamAV developers suggest, that _all_ machines, > where ClamAV will work, - at home, at corporations, at Nuclear Plants - > should be internet-connected?)
The only requirement is that you have a means of putting the database data onto the system that is running clamav. This can be via an internal network behind a firewall, in which case an internet connected system will have to fetch it for you and make it available inside your firewall, or it can be a sneakernet with floppy disks or cdrom images you burn. You still need a way to get the databases and those methods are adequate though limited, but not sufficiently so to be a hard stop. There is no way to get Internet-based data from the Internet without some kind of connection to the Internet. Your ClamAV server needn't be directly connected to the Internet, but is most efficient if there is a digital path to the source via any number of firewalls and proxies you can imagine. I'd bet you have such a system, in fact, and you're just not thinking outside the box. If you can configure a system to fetch the databases you can then use any method you wish to usher them to where they need to be including freshclam, web browser, wget, ftp, rsync, cfengine, scp, sftp, cvs, nfs, samba, email, or calling out the bits down the hall. If you can't do that then you can pay somebody else to do it for you. I get $300/hour and I'd be glad to help. dp _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
