Of all the packages I install (Fedora), clamav is the only modern
package that fails to install and just work.
The developers of clamav have done a great job with this product, and I
trust them to create a product that works, and about which I need to
know nothing of the inner workings.
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.
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 then
leave it alone, missing many features, surely, but I have (many) other
tasks beyond administration of ClamAv.
This means that much of the developers work is wasted, because I take
the easiet way around an error, no clamav user, the hell with it,
freshclam runs as root.
config file, just take out "Example" keep hacking until it stops
complaining.
Oh and:
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
Never will be fixed. I'm not spending another two days monkeying with
configuration, so this install of ClamAV stays, just ignore the warning
that it's OUTDATED until then next OS upgrade. So I'll never see any of
the new and great features added.
Sorry if this sounds like a rant, it's not, it's an appeal to make a
priority of simplifying the installation. The work the developers do is
wasted if the package is mis-installed (or not installed at all). If
you only care about people who really have the time to study and install
clamav correctly, count me out. I'm sure clamav is the best, but I'll
settle for second (or third or ...) if it saves me time and aggravation.
And yes, you could suggest that since every FOSS project needs all the
help it could get I could make these changes, but that makes no sense.
I know nothing about ClamAV and it's more productive for me to spend my
time on other projects - you'll find me on a couple on SF alone (and on
at least one of them I'm trying to get code out in an easier form
because I keep answering forum questions related to the lack of simple
installation).
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim Redman
(505) 662 5156 x85
http://www.ergotech.com
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