Robert Wyatt wrote:
You missed a few steps :
- Find out what has happened to your software that was working fine
yesterday.
- Work out what to do RIGHT NOW because your phone is ringing with
people asking where their mail is*
- Put in place a quick workaround (disable scanning) to allow the mail
queues to get flowing
- Work out what options are available for dealing with it medium term
- Work out where the dig files are stored
- and then disable freshclam and put yesterdays sig files back
- work out what to to get onto newer version
* Yes, we've already heard the arguments that mail shouldn't stop when
ClamAV does - even though that is logically inconsistent with the
argument that old versions couldn't be allowed to continue without updates.
I was talking about turning off freshclam anytime in the last two
years, not the day after your system broke. Again, you're behaving
as though you had no way of knowing when that is not true.
That assumes one knows in advance that one has to do that - which
we've already determined was not the case for quite a few people.
Most people could have upgraded if they knew in advance it was going
to be forced - but other than that, why would someone turn off
updates that are working ?
--
Simon Hobson
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