Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Julio Canto
Phil Ershler wrote: Every 10 minutes is much to often. There was a thread about this issue just a while ago. The consensus was 1 to 4 hours and not exactly on the hour. If everybody ran freshclam every 10 minutes, the server would croak. Phil For the shake of reducing the 'unprotection window',

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Nigel Horne wrote: On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 10:50, Jason Haar wrote: With which version of clamAV? Slackware here with both 0.75.1 and devel-20040814 Restarted clamd yesterday at 2pm EDT and it is now at 11 meg (the devel version). As Trog says we are not able to reproduce this problem, so any h

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Stern
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:41:04 -0700, Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Steven Stern wanted us to know: > >NO! Once an hour is reasonable, but not 6 times an hour! I was showing the OP how, not condoning his schedule. I run freshclam on th 17th minute every 4 hours. -- Steve -

Re: [Clamav-users] Mac OS X installation?

2004-08-19 Thread Randall Perry
on 8/18/04 8:55 AM, Bart Silverstrim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Best way I've found is to install Fink and install ClamAV using Fink > (Fink Commander). VERY easy to keep updated to the latest ClamAV using > Fink (although you do need to keep running freshclam separately...Fink > only upgrades

Re: [Clamav-users] fyi: MacOSX installation howto

2004-08-19 Thread Randall Perry
on 8/18/04 2:36 PM, OpenMacNews at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > for those interested, here are my unadorned, somewhat dusty, 'from scratch' > install notes for clamav. > > for me, works great on OSX 10.3.5. > > richard > > > (EDITOR)

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Lutz Petersen
> It appears people that report 'memory leaks' are running either Solaris > or FreeBSD. It may be that there is a library on those systems that > leaks memory. We administrate nearly 50 Linux Server (mostly debian, some suse, one redhat). No solaris and no freebsd. Most of them from time to tim

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
Steven Stern wanted us to know: >sudo crontab -e >add at the end >*/10 * * * * /path/to/freshclam --quiet NO! Once an hour is reasonable, but not 6 times an hour! -- Regards... Todd We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not suppos

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Phil Ershler
Every 10 minutes is much to often. There was a thread about this issue just a while ago. The consensus was 1 to 4 hours and not exactly on the hour. If everybody ran freshclam every 10 minutes, the server would croak. Phil On Aug 19, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Stern
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:15:51 +0530, Rajanikanth P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello All, > >I want to write a script/program which checks for clam virus updates >every 10 minutes and updates the respective files. Can anybody provide >me some information on sites that host clam av definitions and a

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
Rajanikanth P wanted us to know: >I want to write a script/program which checks for clam virus updates man freshclam -- Regards... Todd We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy. Where it is easy, it's call

[Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Rajanikanth P
Hello All, I want to write a script/program which checks for clam virus updates every 10 minutes and updates the respective files. Can anybody provide me some information on sites that host clam av definitions and also tell me which is the most efficient and reliable site Thanks in advance. Rega

[Clamav-users] rar archives

2004-08-19 Thread Vladimir Mendelevich
Hello! Is support of RAR archives is good enougth fof productive? I have clamav-20040818 from devel. Because i get a problem today with attachments of multipartial rar archive. I think. Or it's just a problem of a current devel version and not a problem of RAR supporting? С уважением, Владимир Ме

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Nigel Horne
> > On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 10:50, Jason Haar wrote: > > With which version of clamAV? > Slackware here with both 0.75.1 and devel-20040814 > > Restarted clamd yesterday at 2pm EDT and it is now at 11 meg (the devel > version). As Trog says we are not able to reproduce this problem, so any hel

[Clamav-users] RAR module failure w/ 1 MB file in 0.75.1

2004-08-19 Thread Rob Kudyba
We're using ClamAV libraries, version 0.75.1, linked in the MPP product, with CGP. The file downloadable from ftp://herbie.raeinternet.com/pub/parkeer.rar, generates the following error: RAR module failure Using a command line scanner which incorporates ClamAV we see this: [10:49:50] 6 [51712] [

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Nigel Horne wrote: On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 10:50, Jason Haar wrote: With which version of clamAV? -Nigel Slackware here with both 0.75.1 and devel-20040814 Restarted clamd yesterday at 2pm EDT and it is now at 11 meg (the devel version). Regards, Rick ---

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Nigel Horne
On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 10:50, Jason Haar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:36:09AM +0100, Trog wrote: > > It appears people that report 'memory leaks' are running either Solaris > > or FreeBSD. It may be that there is a library on those systems that > > leaks memory. > > > > Linux too. I've se

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Nigel Horne
On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 11:40, Trog wrote: > On Linux, its easy: > 1. install valgrind http://valgrind.kde.org/ This only relates to linux on an x86. > For other systems (Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.) the same methodology applies, Valgrind is available on FreeBSD5 (I haven't look for FreeBSD4). It i

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 10:50, Jason Haar wrote: > Linux too. I've seen this on Redhat 8 and Fedora Core 2. > > > Until someone who can reproduce these memory leaks puts the effort in to > > find the cause, by using a memory bebugger, this issue is unlikely to > > get resolved. > > Can you give an

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Jason Haar
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:36:09AM +0100, Trog wrote: > It appears people that report 'memory leaks' are running either Solaris > or FreeBSD. It may be that there is a library on those systems that > leaks memory. > Linux too. I've seen this on Redhat 8 and Fedora Core 2. > Until someone who can

Re: [Clamav-users] Leak on Linux 2.4

2004-08-19 Thread Trog
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 05:17, Lutz Petersen wrote: > Sure, but that's only a workaround. We have mailservers that > get clamd restartet (via clamdwatch.pl) nearly 10-15 times a day. > Every time clamd hangs that has consequences to the mail-flow, and > that's a real problem. Running clamd witho

Re: [Clamav-users] Bagle.AQ not detected

2004-08-19 Thread Trog
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:15, Nicolas Aulas wrote: > Hello all, > I have a amavis-clamav(0.75.1)-postfix system installed on a fedora core 1 > and it works very well. My "little" problem is about the "price_new.zip" > virus (seems to be bagle.aq) tht's is not detected. Have you the same > problem ?