On Tuesday 26 October 2004 16:56, Trog shaped the electrons to say:
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:01, Jim Maul wrote:
Keep in mind while i agree the instructions are a little messed up for the current versions of the software it uses, the instructions are the way they are to correct problems and certain small errors that occured in older versions of the sofware. Basically the instructions are outdated in my opinion. I dont believe the reason for the clamscan/clamdscan linking is still a valid reason as well as other "workarounds" that were put in place. The instructions should be updated.
They were updated four days ago, and they are still grossly wrong.
Yes the site was updated days ago. This was most likely to replace some tarballs with newer versions, not to update the text of the website. Just because a site update was made does not mean the instructions are up to date. Again you are making assumptions.
With that said, the person, yes, only 1 person, who created qmr is obviously busy and this is not his full time job. I think it is great that he has taken this amount of time out of his everyday life to provide this great service for everyone....cut him some slack will ya?
I believe the same problems have been in there for over a year.
Many people have used the QMR instructions and have had great success. I have been running it for almost a year now with no problems. It works great. Yes, i undid the linking of clamdscan and have switched to clamdscan, but this was a personal preference of mine and i made the change after i was comfortable with the setup and knew a little more about how it worked.
Saying "for no reason other than ignorance and gross stupidity" is quite incorrect and even downright rude.
You don't think it's rude to break other peoples software, for which we then have to deal with the resulting mess, as witnessed by this thread?
your software is not broken, you are grossly exagerating the situation. The software is being used in a less than ideal way but for most people this does not create a resulting mess. Obviously you only hear the people that have problems on these lists. People dont post to say "hey my install has been working great nonstop!"
You have NO idea why he set up the instructions this way and you yourself are making huge assumptions. If you have some constructive criticism here im sure it would be appreciated but you previous comments were IMO not helpful at all.
1. Install ClamAV as per it's documentation, and then don't break it by linking clamdscan to clamscan.
Again, its hardly broken.
2. If you want to use clamscan rather than clamdscan (for no reason, other then to send your CPU load to 100%, as per this thread), configure qmail-scanner to do so, it has a configure option for this).
The reason this was done was to work around bugs in older versions of clamav, not to intentionally raise CPU Load. i hope you dont seriously believe that. If you bothered to read the site a little further you would have seen the explanation as to why this linking was done.
'And the winner is by way of knockout... in the red corner - Trog!'
You are being very immature about this.
And finally, if anyone has issues with the QMR install, i would suggest you fire off a quick email to the maintainer and offer your constructive criticism. Hes a great guy and has offered tons of support for those in need. Obviously the clamav list is not the place to discuss this and im sorry it has even gone this far.
-Jim _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
