Re: Rant: Clamav is not well-integrated
On 07/13/2009 10:32 AM, Dunc wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: Thanks for listening. G.Wolfe Woodbury I sure pretty much anyone who uses clamav uses the one from RPMforge. Its a lot tidier and actually works out the box, and has a service set up for clamd The fedora one is well known for its awfulness Dunc Thank You for the hint! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Rant: Clamav is not well-integrated
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: I've just spent a frustrating two hours trying to get clamav installed and running. Ultimately I turned if off again to get mail flowing. First, there are too many different packages required to get the system working: clamav-milter, clamav-scanner, freshclam, etc There should be an easy to install package that gets everything. Second: The integration into the user system is messy, two usernames and multiple groups and conflicting permissions are in use. Third: It takes manual intervention to get sendmail.mc correctly formed and clamav integrated. I understand that this is necessarily a manual process, but there is essentially no documentation of what should be done in a recipe. Fourth: Clamav-milter is different from clamd and there is no initscript support for clamd (the scanner daemon) which should be controlled by the clamav-milter initscript. Fifth: Freshclam (the updater) should be better integrated. It takes a separate install and configuration (manual) step, and then it complains that the version is already out-of-date! Sixth: I really appreciate the work that the package maintainer has done, but the integration and logic are much less than clear and clean. Thanks for listening. G.Wolfe Woodbury I sure pretty much anyone who uses clamav uses the one from RPMforge. Its a lot tidier and actually works out the box, and has a service set up for clamd The fedora one is well known for its awfulness Dunc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Rant: Clamav is not well-integrated
I've just spent a frustrating two hours trying to get clamav installed and running. Ultimately I turned if off again to get mail flowing. First, there are too many different packages required to get the system working: clamav-milter, clamav-scanner, freshclam, etc There should be an easy to install package that gets everything. Second: The integration into the user system is messy, two usernames and multiple groups and conflicting permissions are in use. Third: It takes manual intervention to get sendmail.mc correctly formed and clamav integrated. I understand that this is necessarily a manual process, but there is essentially no documentation of what should be done in a recipe. Fourth: Clamav-milter is different from clamd and there is no initscript support for clamd (the scanner daemon) which should be controlled by the clamav-milter initscript. Fifth: Freshclam (the updater) should be better integrated. It takes a separate install and configuration (manual) step, and then it complains that the version is already out-of-date! Sixth: I really appreciate the work that the package maintainer has done, but the integration and logic are much less than clear and clean. Thanks for listening. G.Wolfe Woodbury -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
