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Tomasz Kojm wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:42:07 -0600 (MDT) James Bourne
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Yes it may be possible, but that's still no excuse for clamd to
>> bail when presented with two sets of data files, one invalid and
>> one valid.
>
> There's no perfect solution to this problem. The only good one I
> could think of is an option to clamscan/clamd that would only allow
> loading of digitally signed databases and ignore all the rest. Of
> course, external dbs (sane, msrbl, etc.) would no longer be
> supported in such a mode.
>
What about a way to check the validity of a database before loading
it, and not fatally stopping the load just because of a bad database
file.  Of course, the user needs to be notified; but, isn't that
supported by a logwatch function. or extension?

- -James
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