[Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-20 Thread Luca Gibelli
Dear ClamAV users, the development version of ClamAV is ready for general testing! New mechanisms have already proved very nasty to Internet worms successfully protecting against the new versions R, S, T, U, V and W of the infamous Mydoom worm and detecting them as Worm.Mydoom.Gen before they

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-20 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Luca Gibelli wrote: > -) clamd > + new directive ScanHTML (enables HTML normalisator and ScrEnc decoder) > + new directive ScanPE (win32 executable analyser and decompressor) > + new directive DetectBrokenExecutables (try to detect broken >executables a

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-20 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Luca Gibelli wrote: -) clamd + clamav.conf was renamed clamd.conf Um, this has got the one of the most annoying change for me in the history of clamav (the other ones was the change of libclamav.so.1.0.3 to libclamav.so.1.0.4, and the now-missing ThreadTimeout option.) Tomasz, can you plea

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:54:18 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luca Gibelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the development version of ClamAV is ready for general testing! I have just done some quick .spec file hacking and a bit of tidying up and have a first cut version of a src rpm that should build and

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:33:22 +0700 "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-) clamd > > + clamav.conf was renamed clamd.conf > > > > > Um, this has got the one of the most annoying change for me in the > history of clamav Oh, I'm responsible for that change.. > Tomasz, can you pl

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:04:17 -0400 (EDT) "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Developers -- could we possibly have a grace period where it will > generate an error, but run, if no longer used options are in the We already follow this way but in case of major releases brutal move

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Tomasz Kojm wrote: Tomasz, can you please make future changes to clamav backward-compatible? In this case, renaming my clamav.conf to Almost all changes are backward compatible but the point of the renaming was to force users to review/edit their config files. Most of you are simply too lazy t

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:44, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > >Almost all changes are backward compatible but the point of the renaming > >was to force users to review/edit their config files. Most of you are > >simply too lazy to add, activate, or tune new options without such >

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Bill Maidment
Trog wrote: Also, your freshclam.conf will be missing DNSDatabaseInfo My freshclam.conf is indeed missing DNSDatabaseInfo, but I don't see anything replacing that. Is there supposed to be a freshclamd.conf ? -- _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:32 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost all changes are backward compatible but the point of the > renaming was to force users to review/edit their config files. Might one enquire which are the recommended options for review/change

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 13:42, Bill Maidment wrote: > Trog wrote: > > > > > Also, your freshclam.conf will be missing DNSDatabaseInfo > > > > My freshclam.conf is indeed missing DNSDatabaseInfo, but I don't see > anything replacing that. It's not a replacement, it's an addition to the existing

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Bill Maidment
Trog wrote: It's not a replacement, it's an addition to the existing freshclam.conf So why wasn't freshclam.conf renamed to force people to look at that too? -- _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ Bill Maidment Mai

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Frank Elsner
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:32 +0200 Tomasz Kojm wrote: [ ... ] > Almost all changes are backward compatible but the point of the renaming > was to force users to review/edit their config files. Most of you are > simply too lazy to add, activate, or tune new options without such > dramatic change

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:11, Bill Maidment wrote: > Trog wrote: > > > > > It's not a replacement, it's an addition to the existing freshclam.conf > > > So why wasn't freshclam.conf renamed to force people to look at that too? The new options in clamd.conf have an affect on the number of viruse

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:23, Frank Elsner wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:32 +0200 Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > Almost all changes are backward compatible but the point of the renaming > > was to force users to review/edit their config files. Most of you are > > simply too lazy to ad

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 21 Sep 2004 12:44, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Really? Then would you say my ChangeLog is wrong? > > Mon Sep 20 18:08:53 BST 2004 (njh) > -- > * libclamav/mbox.c: Some performance enhancements > > Mon Sep 20 15:31:21 CEST 2004 (tk) > -

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Stefan Hornburg
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:32 +0200 Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:33:22 +0700 > "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >-) clamd > > > + clamav.conf was renamed clamd.conf > > > > > > > > Um, this has got the one of the most annoying change for

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:30, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > In that case we should probably rot somewhere, but you make the life for packager's > of ClamAV (e.g. Debian) unnecessarily hard. Are you saying that you would otherwise have simply left the existing clamav.conf file unaltered, thereby leaving

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 at 13:03:32 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:33:22 +0700 > "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >-) clamd > > > + clamav.conf was renamed clamd.conf > > > > > Um, this has got the one of the most annoying change for me in the > > history of

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Bill Maidment
Tomasz Papszun wrote: I'd like to add that changing the name from clamav.conf to clamd.conf was requested by users on the ML a few times. So, it's not our fault ;-). You are correct there. But it didn't appear in any devel versions until the 80rc came out. That's what took me by surprise. I'm all

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Luca Gibelli wrote: -) clamd + clamav.conf was renamed clamd.conf Um, this has got the one of the most annoying change for me in the history of clamav (the other ones was the change of libclamav.so.1.0.3 to libclamav.so.1.0.4, and the now-missing

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Rob Evers
Trog wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:30, Stefan Hornburg wrote: In that case we should probably rot somewhere, but you make the life for packager's of ClamAV (e.g. Debian) unnecessarily hard. Are you saying that you would otherwise have simply left the existing clamav.conf file unaltered, thereby

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:11:08 +1000 Bill Maidment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trog wrote: > > > > > It's not a replacement, it's an addition to the existing > > freshclam.conf > > > > > So why wasn't freshclam.conf renamed to force people to look at that > too? Well, DNSDatabaseInfo does not

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Matt
Bill Maidment wrote: > Trog wrote: > > > > > It's not a replacement, it's an addition to the existing > > freshclam.conf > > > > > So why wasn't freshclam.conf renamed to force people to look at that > too? > Not specifically in reply to you, Bill, but has anyone complaining actually thoug

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting Tomasz Papszun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 at 13:03:32 +0200, Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:33:22 +0700 "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-) clamd > > + clamav.conf was renamed clamd.conf > > > Um, this has got the one of the most annoying change

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:24, Rob Evers wrote: > Trog wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:30, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > > > > > >>In that case we should probably rot somewhere, but you make the life for packager's > >>of ClamAV (e.g. Debian) unnecessarily hard. > > > > > > Are you saying that you

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Especially since make install does not even put clamd.conf it the default etc > dir > (I'm using latest CVS snapshot, which is newer that the 0.80rc, on Solaris). Oooh -- opposite problem here. make install on 0.80rc, Solaris 8 -- make install DOES

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Brian Morrison wrote: > Might one enquire which are the recommended options for review/change > please? Every time I upgrade clamav, I do a diff of my clamav.conf with the one in the distribution, and use that to patch new options into my config file. ie, from clamav-dist/e

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:49:57 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not specifically in reply to you, Bill, but has anyone complaining > actually thought of: > > 1) Reading the README. Did that, everything worked first time for me except for me leaving an unrecognised o

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Stefan Hornburg
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:49:56 +0100 Trog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:24, Rob Evers wrote: > > Trog wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:30, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > > > > > > > > >>In that case we should probably rot somewhere, but you make the life for > > >>packager'

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:48:15 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I look forward to seeing how I get on with this new version, so far > it seems to be quite happy and freshclam has not complained either. And now, before even having time to draw a decent breath,

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread listuser
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Trog wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:23, Frank Elsner wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:32 +0200 Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > Almost all changes are backward compatible but the point of the renaming > > > was to force users to review/edit their config

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Stephen Gran
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg said: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:32 +0200 > Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:33:22 +0700 > > "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >-) clamd > > > > + clamav.conf was renamed clamd.

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Bill Maidment
Matt wrote: 1) Reading the README. Agreed. How about adding an incompatibility comment similar to this from the mimedefang Changelog ? WARNING: Before upgrading MIMEDefang, please search this file for *** NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY ** to see if anything has changed that will affect your filter. --

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Doug Hardie
I have looked all over the clamav.net web pages and I can't find it. Where is it? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your pro

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-21 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Tomasz Kojm wrote: Well, DNSDatabaseInfo does not affect virus recognition. What IS the default behaviour of clamav when a particular default option does not exists? Is running clamd (and freshclam) with empty clamd.conf and freshclam.conf (if it is possible) be the same as running with the de

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-22 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:55:39 +0700 "Fajar A. Nugraha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What IS the default behaviour of clamav when a particular default > option does not exists? > Is running clamd (and freshclam) with empty clamd.conf and clamd requires and strictly depends on clamd.conf. > Does a

Re: [Clamav-users] announcing ClamAV 0.80rc

2004-09-23 Thread Frank Elsner
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:43:15 BST Trog wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:23, Frank Elsner wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:32 +0200 Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > Almost all changes are backward compatible but the point of the renaming > > > was to force users to review/edit th