Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 9:43 AM, Bill Landry wrote: If you are seeing three copies of each unofficial database, then you have a problem somewhere. This topic is really OT for the ClamAV mailing list. My net nanny buzzer went off. dp ___ Help us build a comprehe

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 8:45 AM, Simon Hobson wrote: It's actually more efficient than that ! It uses something similar to a rolling checksum to find throughout the file. So in principal, you can add a short bit to the front of a large file, or even chop a file up into chunks and rearrange them, and it will

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 8:45 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, Dennis Peterson wrote: Rsync is able to transfer only the differences between two files provided a version of the file being transferred exists on the source and the destination. In addition, rsync will not transfer anything if it determines there are no cha

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam, updates and EOL.

2010-05-03 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 03:18:30PM +0200, aCaB (aca...@digitalfuture.it) wrote: > Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have been following the thread about "EOL" and "Move to next version of > > clamav" > > which stopped a few mailservers ... I do not want to take sides here, > > this is

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Bill Landry
On Mon, May 3, 2010 8:45 am, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Rsync is able to transfer only the differences between two files >> provided a version of the file being >> transferred exists on the source and the destination. In addition, rsync >> will not transfer anything if it >> de

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
Chris Meadors wrote: Rsync treats all files as binary. When finding changes it splits a file into blocks, computes a checksum for each block and performs a comparison between the sending and receiving side. Then it only sends the blocks which have changed. When dealing with a text file which

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Alex
Hi, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Rsync is able to transfer only the differences between two files provided a > version of the file being > transferred exists on the source and the destination. In addition, rsync will > not transfer anything if it > determines there are no changes between the two fil

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
Jim Preston wrote: The rest only makes sense IF that statement is true. It's already been pointed out that it was not inevitable, and had the team cared then there were ways of not making old versions die. More than one technique has been mentioned, and at least one of them would have been via

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam db.ca. mirror failure 'unknown response from server'

2010-05-03 Thread Charles Gregory
Hello! I get the error below from my crond freshclam job a couple of times a day, BUT it is NOT consistent. The database is usualy updated successfully on the next hourly run I can't tell if a different IP is used for the successful update. Could someone please check on this? See if we ha

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Bill Maidment
> > Simon, Mark, > Are you ever going to get over it and move on? If you are unhappy with > ClamAVs decision take your bat and ball and go to some other ball park. > Here. Here! Enough is enough! There are more important things to consider. Do I take tea, or coffee? One lump, or two? Have a nic

Re: [Clamav-users] byte code compiler configure issues

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Preston
Tom Shaw wrote: At 6:06 AM -0700 5/3/10, Jim Preston wrote: Tom Shaw wrote: At 5:48 AM -0700 5/3/10, Jim Preston wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/2/10 8:14 AM, Tom Shaw wrote: Trying now let you know in about 10 10.5.8 right now. 10.6 after we get this working Tom I was able to compi

Re: [Clamav-users] byte code compiler configure issues

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Shaw
At 6:06 AM -0700 5/3/10, Jim Preston wrote: Tom Shaw wrote: At 5:48 AM -0700 5/3/10, Jim Preston wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/2/10 8:14 AM, Tom Shaw wrote: Trying now let you know in about 10 10.5.8 right now. 10.6 after we get this working Tom I was able to compile .96 in Snow Le

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam, updates and EOL.

2010-05-03 Thread aCaB
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi. > > I have been following the thread about "EOL" and "Move to next version of > clamav" > which stopped a few mailservers ... I do not want to take sides here, > this is NOT what this email is about. > > This is a suggestion. Mind posting your suggestions to the

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 05:53 -0700, Jim Preston wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > > > > Rsync is able to transfer only the differences between two files > > provided a version of the file being transferred exists on the source > > and the destination. In addition, rsync will not transfer anything

Re: [Clamav-users] byte code compiler configure issues

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Preston
Tom Shaw wrote: At 5:48 AM -0700 5/3/10, Jim Preston wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/2/10 8:14 AM, Tom Shaw wrote: Trying now let you know in about 10 10.5.8 right now. 10.6 after we get this working Tom I was able to compile .96 in Snow Leopard with no modification. dp Hi Dennis,

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Preston
Simon Hobson wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: What they did was a bad call. They wilfully let freshclam download an update which they knew would crash the clamd service. This was going to happen anyway when the signatures grew to take advantage of the new format. Older versions of clamd were go

Re: [Clamav-users] byte code compiler configure issues

2010-05-03 Thread Tom Shaw
At 5:48 AM -0700 5/3/10, Jim Preston wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/2/10 8:14 AM, Tom Shaw wrote: Trying now let you know in about 10 10.5.8 right now. 10.6 after we get this working Tom I was able to compile .96 in Snow Leopard with no modification. dp Hi Dennis, Did not know you

Re: [Clamav-users] Resources for integrating with spamassassin+amavisd

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Preston
Dennis Peterson wrote: Rsync is able to transfer only the differences between two files provided a version of the file being transferred exists on the source and the destination. In addition, rsync will not transfer anything if it determines there are no changes between the two files. Denni

Re: [Clamav-users] byte code compiler configure issues

2010-05-03 Thread Jim Preston
Dennis Peterson wrote: On 5/2/10 8:14 AM, Tom Shaw wrote: Trying now let you know in about 10 10.5.8 right now. 10.6 after we get this working Tom I was able to compile .96 in Snow Leopard with no modification. dp Hi Dennis, Did not know you used OS X. Was the Snow Leopard compile in C

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Hobson
Dennis Peterson wrote: What they did was a bad call. They wilfully let freshclam download an update which they knew would crash the clamd service. This was going to happen anyway when the signatures grew to take advantage of the new format. Older versions of clamd were going to die sooner or

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 5/3/10 12:09 AM, Mark wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote: The ClamAV team didn't design the AV to stop on getting a special signature. That signature could exist due to a bug that you decided not to fix (by not updating/patching). It was a clever use of a bug to disable the d

Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-05-03 Thread Mark
> On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sarocet wrote: > > The ClamAV team didn't design the AV to stop on getting a special > > signature. That signature could exist due to a bug that you decided > > not to fix (by not updating/patching). It was a clever use of a bug > > to disable the daemon. > You are