Török Edwin wrote:
Could you please point out where in this log extract it mentions
anything about the software getting remotely turned off ?
Received signal: wake up
ClamAV update process started at Fri Apr 16 10:26:14 2010
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.95.3 Recommended version: 0.96
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
main.cvd is up to date (version: 52, sigs: 704727, f-level: 44,
builder: sven)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 10751, sigs: 52057, f-level: 51,
builder: guitar)
If you manually start clamscan/clamd it shows this message:
LibClamAV Warning: ***********************************************************
LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. ***
LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq ***
LibClamAV Warning: ***********************************************************
LibClamAV Error: cli_hex2str(): Malformed
hexstring: This ClamAV version has reached End
of Life! Please upgrade to version 0.95 or
later. For more information see
www.clamav.net/eol-clamav-094 and
www.clamav.net/download (length: 169)
LibClamAV Error: Problem parsing database at line 742
LibClamAV Error: Can't load
/tmp/clamav-87fcebeda696335ed02c4a74df419b38/daily.ndb:
Malformed database
LibClamAV Error: Can't load /usr/share/clamav/daily.cvd: Malformed database
ERROR: Malformed database
No, that's what it says NOW, **AFTER** it's borked the server.
Where in that log message I quoted above does it
say that at any point in the future is will be
turned off ?
I've had no reason to run freshclam manually on
that server in the last 6 months, for several
years in fact. That demonstrates the quality of
the code/project prior to this issue.
> That log message links to http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
You are right, the FAQ should link to the EOL message.
Could you please point out where on that page it mentions anything about
the problem ?
www.clamav.net
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT (red)
That is **NOT** on the page referenced.
I hope that by now you may be realising that many
people quite legitimately did not know anything
until things broke this morning. We did not have
6 months notice - our servers "just broke".
Aecio F. Neto wrote:
I use clamav, I think it is great and I recommend it to all my customers.
I agree.
Even though, I do not agree with fact that a vendor (open source or not)
disable and break services on my endpoint.
There are many other ways to do it and this is bad for the endpoint and for
the vendor.
Team should review this practice, no matter if they announce it earlier or
not.
Ditto.
Today I've gone from having a server that "just
runs" and has run with virtually no oversight for
several years to one that "just broke".
I had to disable AV scanning this morning in
order to get the mail moving, now I've disabled
freshclam and rolled back the database to
yesterdays version.
Luckily it's not been a busy day today !
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