This one time, at band camp, Erik Mouw said: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:26:15AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Erik Mouw said: > > > Good to know, but not with every incoming email message. I can't do > > > anything about it, I just trust the package maintainer to release a new > > > package in a few days. Could you remove this annoying warning? To see > > > it once day or so would be enough. > > > > I see that it's annoying, but as the point of that banner is to warn you > > that you need to upgrade the clamav engine in order to catch new viruses > > in the new cvd files, there is not much point permanently suppressing > > it. It seems like a disservice to turn off a purposeful warning, to me. > > The point is that as a simple user I can't do *anything* about it. > (granted, a more advanced user could recompile the package, but that > requires a bit more knowledge than 'apt-get update && apt-get > upgrade'). > > I have to suffer until the package maintainer uploads a new package. If > the package maintainer is going to upload it anyway, why would I have > to be bothered with messages from upstream? The message would make > sense if clamav actually checked for new debian packages, but right now > it is just annoying.
Imagine the situation when stable releases, and there is a frozen version of clamav in it. When users start saying, 'clam doesn't detect the new virus such and such', this is a way of telling them they need to upgrade. If you don't want to see it, use clamdscan instead. Messages from the library are hidden from you, and only appear in the logs in that case. Or redirect stderr to somewhere else in your invocation, that will also fix it. In other words, run clamscan --stdout 2>/dev/null or so. That way you get all of clamscan's messages on stdout, but the library will continue to write to stderr, and you can happily discard those messages. In any event, I am sorry to disagree, but I am not going to get rid of the mechanism by which clamav tells users they need to upgrade in order to maintain effectiveness. That feels like a real disservice. Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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