-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Redman wrote: > It's seems that I have a philosophical difference here. There > almost seems to be a "no pain, no gain" mentality, that installing > ClamAV SHOULD be complex and difficult, you don't really deserve > the software unless you've suffered through the installation. I > find this surprising since, to me, minimizing virus penetration is > a benefit to all, and the wider the audience the better - even > brain-dead sysadmins. > > Jim >
Hi, Jim, Unfortunately, if they are a brain-dead sysadmin, I drought they would know what to do with a VIRUS if ClamAV found one. Remember, ClamAV will find viruses, but, not clean them from infected programs. You still have to know what you need to do and read the manuals. All the documentation says that the user has to edit the configuration file after installation to suite their needs. Often it is up to the package maintainer to keep up and modify the installation to agree with any changes upstream. I've run across many of the same problems with the installation of ClamAV the first time; but, if you read the documentation and changes regularly, most users are able to get things right. Some package maintainers don't and some do do the configuration for the users to help out/ or not. The last change for many packagers was the move to split ClamAV into many packages to simplify some of the updates. I manage a package I borrowed from the DAG repo long ago for FC1... I still have it updated to the latest version and have not had any problems with dependencies. - -James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFUPyvkNLDmnu1kSkRAmtPAJ4wQ8aMb4lSST8kxYbqJbFZUFVGtQCeP+na 78pPXSoYbSaTf19qpyOsMoY= =yrAe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
