Dan wrote:
So keeping up to date has it's own risks - hence why many people
take the attitude of "if it aint broke, don't fix it".
But being a YEAR out of date?
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Like I said, there ARE legitimate reasons for not always updating
every bit of software every time an update comes out. Looking back,
I've had more problems caused by updates (as in it worked, I fixed it
with updates, it stopped working) than I have from lack of them.
Clearly up in the skies as some of you guys seem to be given the
height of your horses, things are different - perhaps your software
works differently at altitude !
Wow. Freshclam has told you every day for .... a year+, that your
installation was out of date. Plus the 6 months of messages about
the EOL that have been posted. How much more notice do you need?
**Any** notice would be nice.
As I've already asked before, please tell me where in the message
below (or the URL it includes) it says anything whatsoever about
"your software will die" ?
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WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!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)
It doesn't. So please cut the dung about freshclam having been
warning me for a long time about this. It did no such thing - there
is a difference between noting that there may be some of the newest
features not supported and it turning it's toes up and going to meet
it's maker.
As to the policy having been published, well it would appear many of
us have the same problem as Arthur Dent.
Of course, if you insist on keeping your system out-of-date, you
could just restore the database from your backup, and disable
freshclam. You do have backups, don't you?
As I've already said several times, YES I HAVE AND YES THAT IS WHAT
I'VE DONE until I can fix it.
I can think of two other ways this could have been done, with very
little effort, and with little or no inconvenience to what you would
consider superior admins. That's irrelevant now, you've done what
you've done and it's not going to be undone.
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