On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Dennis Peterson wrote: > > I disagree. I think this would be VERY useful. Not for the people who > > don't want to RTFM, but for the people who would rather not have to wade > > through the docs and changelog to figure out if there are config changes. > Let me help avoid prevent wading: > diff new-config old-config
(sarcasm) Diff? What's a diff? I don't see a 'diff' in my e-mail. I don't see a 'diff' on my desktop. What do I click? (/sarcasm) That's sarcasm for *me*, but not for the hundreds of small office users who have paid someone a few bucks to 'set it up for them'. One last time: ClamAV is DISTINCT from other software packages in that a user cannot just install a 'stable' version and use it. New releases are not *just* enhancements or refinements or bug-fixes, but often include *critical* changes to the 'engine' that *need* to be installed to assure continued protection against all the new viruses. And for this reason, people who would otherwise only update their software manually (and with all due diligence) maybe once or twice a *year*, moving from one 'stable' version to another, have to regularly update their ClamAV, and the only practical way to do that for many users is *automatically*. All your goof-ball sarcastic suggestions do NOTHING to address this reality, and all the whining about how 'wrong' it is to update software automatically does not change the fact that it is the best compromise for a large number of small systems. If you can't deal with it, at least take your arrogance and parade it somewhere else, where the arrogant elite pat each other on the back. If someone found a way to make your 'diff' suggestion workable for the non-admins who have to 'watch' their servers for 'something going wrong', you would end up with nothing less complicated than the suggested 'watchdog' programs to e-mail users when clamd crashes or errors. And the watchdog would be more generic. > Happy to help with this very serious source of arduous effort. You are the overflowing milk of human kindness. Must be chocolate milk, because it has a distinct brown color..... > dp ... who has no doubt this is still too much work for some people who > think of themselves as admins CG ... who has not doubt that the work is not only 'too much', but not at all understood by people who "should not" be responsible for mail servers, but for some reason, STILL ARE. -- So sorry, my karma ran over your dogma. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
