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 configuration and > management? Yes, it will.
I promised myself I wouldn't stick my nose into this overgrown monstrosity of a thread, but I cannot resist. I don't condone ignorance, nor do I condone elitism, but in this particular instance I see a rather large point being missed by the OP's sympathisers. If I remember rightly, when I installed ClamAV on Gentoo, it did "just work" - in the sense that I could run "/etc/init.d/clamd start" and ClamD would start, and in the sense that the library and header files were installed in sane locations. However... nothing was actually scanning anything for viruses! ClamAV is a toolkit and a service, not a mail scanner or a web-page scanner or an on-access file scanner in its own right. It's one thing having a package that installs and works, but "working" from a functional point of view is a separate issue from "doing what the user wants". The critical point here is that "what the user wants" can be one of an unlimited number of things, precisely because ClamAV is a means to an end, not the end itself. Those familiar with Windows may think of it this way: ClamAV itself is more like a collection of DLLs, and NOT - for example - an end-product like Norton AntiVirus. (Yes, I am aware of ClamWin, but we are debating the ClamAV package itself here. The two are not the same product.) -- Philip Allison Developer SmoothWall Ltd. - http://www.smoothwall.net/ This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or published by any means without the express permission of SmoothWall Ltd. Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the author. See http://www.smoothwall.net/emailnotice.html for the full text of this notice. This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
