On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
It seems this has brought out people who don't normally read this
list. Let
me save you some tilting at windmills.
The philosophy of the ClamAV team has always been, when in doubt
clamd will
not run. There are many people, myself included, who disagree with
this. We
have made our objections known, and this is not how the devs choose
to run
their project.
It is their right. I choose to run ClamAV anyway.
Rant on if it makes you feel better, but you aren't going to change
their
view.
What you SHOULD take from this is that you may want to change how your
milter is set up, so that if clamd dies, unscanned mail is passed
rather
than rejected or temp-failed.
Because if ever a signature database is corrupted, clamd won't run.
If there
is an empty signature db file, clamd won't run. There are probably
other
situations I can't think of right now that mean clamd won't run. I
think
even if the databases are older than a week, clamd won't run.
Now, in the realm of my opinion: If you are running open-source
software
then you better be on a mailing list for it, your distro if not the
packages
themselves.
Because the Clam team, frankly, owes you nothing. Literally,
absolutely,
nothing. They are not only giving you free software, but daily,
hourly, and
sometimes MINUTELY updates to the database. Free. If you stop using
it, not
only won't it hurt them one bit, it will save them bandwidth costs.
Is it too much to ask that we take the initiative and keep up with
what is
available ? If they told us we had to check notes posted on their
front
door for updates, it would STILL be more than we deserve.
I'm sorry, but I literally have no sympathy for people who use
something for
free, don't look at announcements for 6 months, then complain things
stopped
working.
And if you think for a minute it would be any better with Microsoft or
Norton or anyone else -- try dealing with a server that just decided
it's
now unlicensed for who knows what reason.
The traffic on this is ridiculous. You don't like it, buy something,
but
stop whining already.
Amen!
Jim
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