Re: [Clamav-users] 0.96.1 Daemon permissions on Mac OS 10.6.4?

2010-07-12 Thread Robert Wyatt
noob wrote: Hi All: I installed ClamAV 0.96.1 from source on Mac OS 10.6.4 (client, not server) as part of an ASSP intallation. Logs are currently in /var/log/clamd.log and /var/log/freshclam.log If I run freshclam, though, I receive an error: Jul 12 09:34:43 mail net.clamav.clamd[950]: ERROR

Re: [Clamav-users] Latest daily file crashes ClamAV on PowerPC Macintosh

2010-06-16 Thread Robert Wyatt
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Re: [Clamav-users] No debian woody support anymore?

2010-04-24 Thread Robert Wyatt
Simon Hobson wrote: Daniel McDonald wrote: > I'm a little confused by this (still), is it not true that simply turning off freshclam will allow clamav to continue working indefinitely on the existing signature set? No, you need to turn off freshclam *and* delete one signature, or grab an old

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

2010-04-23 Thread Robert Wyatt
Simon Hobson wrote: Jerry wrote: By the way, I still also have an old 8086 with DOS 3? (I don't remember the version) that still works. I still use it on occasion to copy old 5.25 floppys to other media. Yes, some local government agencies have valuable documents archived in that format. Howeve

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Robert Wyatt
Simon Hobson wrote: The **ONLY** defence I can think of is that they assumed an implicit permission by virtue of the user running the update process to fetch signature updates. That's a very tenuous thing to infer when pushing an update that is so different in purpose to what would normally be fe

Re: [Clamav-users] Clubbing a deceased equine

2010-04-21 Thread Robert Wyatt
Eray Aslan wrote: Does anyone have access to legal opinion for a lawsuit against clamav developers or its parent company? Perhaps Germany is the better place for it. Yeah, I've got a legal opinion for you. You have no standing to recover any damages and any suit you file would be subject to a

Re: [Clamav-users] The EOL tweets

2010-04-19 Thread Robert Wyatt
aCaB wrote: Paul Reading wrote: I am using OSX Server 10.4.11 and it is at least five years old and the latest version of Snow Leopard server includes a more recent version of clamav. I assumed that the use of clamav was negotiated by Apple and Clamav and that there would have been some direct c

Re: [Clamav-users] Automating freshclam

2010-04-09 Thread Robert Wyatt
Bowie Bailey wrote: Robert Wyatt wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: I think there is a bit of confusion here between the "SelfCheck" setting in clamd.conf and the "Checks" setting in freshclam.conf. I do see his point with the man page documentation for clamd.conf:

Re: [Clamav-users] Automating freshclam

2010-04-09 Thread Robert Wyatt
Bowie Bailey wrote: Alex wrote: Hi, Also, in my installation, the documentation can be found in both clamd.conf (under "Perform a database check SelfCheck xxx") and in man clamd.conf (under "Directives -> SelfCheck NUMBER"). It does seem a bit vague as only in clamd.conf does it indicate

Re: [Clamav-users] Automating freshclam

2010-04-09 Thread Robert Wyatt
Alex wrote: Hi, I'm a bit confused on the "Checks" variable in freshclam.conf. In various places on the website and elsewhere, it seems to indicate that freshclam should be run manually (periodically in cron) to update the virus databases. However, the "Checks" variable implies that it is perhap

Re: [Clamav-users] OT: Re: wishing I could scan outbound mail with ClamAV

2010-02-26 Thread Robert Wyatt
lists wrote: The last time I checked the discussion was based upon scanning outbound mail for Viruses at the gateway, but thank you for your self righteous 'net nanny' input Robert. However, your post does qualify as noise and I'm ashamed of myself for responding to you. You really are *not* wort

[Clamav-users] OT: Re: Getting "***UNCHECKED***" on some emails I send out.

2010-02-26 Thread Robert Wyatt
It's truly amazing to me how much discussion can be had with absolutely no reference to ClamAV. It almost seems like we could write a white paper on spam, but of course that's so yesterday. It's much more stimulating to pretend like this is the first time anyone ever thought of dealing with it

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav not working in OS X 10.6.2 server

2010-01-28 Thread Robert Wyatt
Todd Lyons wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Rob Jennings wrote: I work for a school district and our new xserves have just been updated to the 10.6 server operating system. The problem I am experiencing on all 4 of these servers which are in different schools is the same. The log files

Re: [Clamav-users] Updates w/o freshclam

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Wyatt
The simplest way would be to run freshclam, copy {main,daily}.c[vl]d to your device, then stop clamd on the CentOS system, remove main.*, daily.* from the DBdir, copy over your new databases, and start clamd. Okay, seems reasonable...but why run freshclam at all if I am manually copying the data

Re: [Clamav-users] Problem downloading 0.95.3 from website

2009-12-30 Thread Robert Wyatt
Hmmm, well the ...part file is not the one you want. You want the identical file without the .part suffix on it (that would be the whole file). Have you checked to see whether it is present? Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there -- I bring up a web browser, firefox or konqueror, and connect to th

Re: [Clamav-users] lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Wyatt
Lima Union wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Jason Bertoch wrote: -Original Message- From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net [mailto:clamav-users- boun...@lists.clamav.net] On Behalf Of Lima Union Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:41 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clama

Re: [Clamav-users] lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Wyatt
Lima Union wrote: Hi all! I'm getting the following error message while try to run clamdscan: $ clamdscan eicar.txt eicar.txt: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR I've enable debug mode and got: $fds_poll_recv: timeout after 600 seconds $Received POLLIN|POLLHUP on fd 5 $Got new connection

Re: [Clamav-users] SubmitDetectionStats Error

2009-11-20 Thread Robert Wyatt
R R wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:52 + From: i...@sussex.ac.uk To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] SubmitDetectionStats Error --On 20 November 2009 11:20:51 -0500 R R wrote: "Beppe Di Maio" FYI, I'm still getting the submission error. ERROR: Su

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd.conf and Clamuko

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Wyatt
Frédéric SOSSON wrote: Hello, I've added ClamukoScanOnOpen in my clamd.conf and clam daemon displays "Missing argument for option at line 122" (the line where ClamukoScanOnOpen is located) then "Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/clamd.conf". If I remove ClamukoScanOnOpen , the daemon

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam configuration file symlink

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Wyatt
In an effort to understand, I'm wondering why you don't simply launch clamav while pointing to the correct config file instead of pointing to a symlink which points to the config file? Frédéric SOSSON wrote: > I have changed owner of /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf symlink to clamav > but it does not w

Re: [Clamav-users] ERROR: Can't open mirrors.dat for writing

2009-09-10 Thread Robert Wyatt
Wong wrote: Dear All, After install ClamAV 0.95.2, I got this message ClamAV update process started at Wed Sep 9 23:52:20 2009 main.cld is up to date (version: 51, sigs: 545035, f-level: 42, builder: sven) Downloading daily-9789.cdiff [100%] daily.cld updated (version: 9789, sigs: 77536, f-l