Casper Gasper wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the help. Just to follow up, the problem was
actually a hardware fault. The hard drive is flaky, but the box is so
lightly loaded the weekly clamscan was the only thing that thrashed
the disk. Testing with:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null
crashes the
On 08/09/06, Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Casper Gasper wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the help. Just to follow up, the problem was
actually a hardware fault. The hard drive is flaky, but the box is so
lightly loaded the weekly clamscan was the only thing that thrashed
the disk.
On 07/09/06, Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gerard Seibert wrote:
On a serious note and I do not mean to offend you either; however, if
you are not going to assist the individual, why ever bother to reply?
Apparently you did not read the thread. I gave him the best advice
Travis Rabe wrote:
And one of the lrgest complaints from going from Windows to Linux is the
lack of support and understanding from community groups. WOW - so what if
he needs to be spoon fed? I am sure all of us at sometime (if yoiu came
form WIndows) needed to be spoon fed. If you didn't -
George R. Kasica wrote:
Travis Rabe wrote:
And one of the lrgest complaints from going from Windows to Linux is the
lack of support and understanding from community groups. WOW - so what if
he needs to be spoon fed? I am sure all of us at sometime (if yoiu came
form WIndows) needed to be
Hi Dennis,
Have I done something to offend you?
I have posted to this list to ask for help with an issue that the developers of
the Linux distro I use have marked as WONTFIX because they identify it to be a
bug in ClamAV.
You are not obliged to answer, yet you have done so twice with rather
David Woolley wrote:
Hi Dennis,
Have I done something to offend you?
Perhaps asking a question which is easily answered with a command you
have already run?
I have posted to this list to ask for help with an issue that the developers of
the Linux distro I use have marked as WONTFIX
I have previously run clamscan --help and man clamscan. I haven't found my
answer there.
Yes, you have found the answer. Do you see an option to limit the
maxfilesize? No, because there isnt one. Question answered. This is
exactly what dennis was trying to show you. Why would you assume
David Woolley wrote:
Hi Dennis,
Have I done something to offend you?
Not at all.
I have posted to this list to ask for help with an issue that the developers of
the Linux distro I use have marked as WONTFIX because they identify it to be a
bug in ClamAV.
You are not obliged to answer, yet
And one of the lrgest complaints from going from Windows to Linux is the
lack of support and understanding from community groups. WOW - so what if
he needs to be spoon fed? I am sure all of us at sometime (if yoiu came
form WIndows) needed to be spoon fed. If you didn't - then great and good
Travis Rabe wrote:
And one of the lrgest complaints from going from Windows to Linux is the
lack of support and understanding from community groups. WOW - so what if
he needs to be spoon fed? I am sure all of us at sometime (if yoiu came
form WIndows) needed to be spoon fed. If you didn't -
Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't see where there is any ridicule. Are you suggesting Windows
people are delicate little flowers than require a gentle touch? That
seems a bit of an insult.
Perhaps not totally relevant; however, I have been involved in education
in one way or another
NO not at all. I am stating that Windows Administrators are usually
hesitant to come to Linux due to the lack of commercial support and
communities. When people (newbies) ask for help and get their heads handed
to them, it makes them a little more hesitant to use Linux, push Linux and
even want
Travis Rabe wrote:
I was one of those newbies (when it comes to new applications, still
am. I
repect the knowledge others have to part on me and I too find that man
pages
are of littl ehelp unless you yourself are a coder - some of us are not.
Many people mistaken think that 'man' is
Dennis Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't see where there is any ridicule. Are you suggesting Windows
people are delicate little flowers than require a gentle touch? That
seems a bit of an insult.
Perhaps not totally relevant; however, I have been involved in education
in one way
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:38:35AM -0700, Travis Rabe said:
And one of the lrgest complaints from going from Windows to Linux is the
lack of support and understanding from community groups. WOW - so what if
he needs to be spoon fed? I am sure all of us at sometime (if yoiu came
form WIndows)
If you build a man a fire, he's warm for a day.
If you set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life.
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 13:53:57 +0100
Casper Gasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wouldn't take it as axiomatic that if an option isn't in the help,
it doesn't exist, so I really don't think it's a stupid question to
ask. I was about to ask it too, and a simple yes or no would have
sufficed. But
Gerard Seibert wrote:
On a serious note and I do not mean to offend you either; however, if
you are not going to assist the individual, why ever bother to reply?
Apparently you did not read the thread. I gave him the best advice
possible. Someone gave him a load of crap that suggests clam
Hi Casper,
Monday, September 4, 2006, 12:33:11 PM, you wrote:
CGAny pointers for trouble-shooting this issue would be great.
CG I'm using ClamAV 0.88.4/1795/Sun Sep 3 23:48:24 2006
I've seen this behaviour too. There's a suggestion on contribs.org that clamAV
chokes when it tries to scan a
On 05/09/06, David Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Casper,
Monday, September 4, 2006, 12:33:11 PM, you wrote:
CGAny pointers for trouble-shooting this issue would be great.
CG I'm using ClamAV 0.88.4/1795/Sun Sep 3 23:48:24 2006
I've seen this behaviour too. There's a suggestion on
Hi Casper,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 11:02:51 AM, you wrote:
CG Shall exclude large files and see how it goes.
What command do you use to do that?
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On 05/09/06, David Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Casper,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 11:02:51 AM, you wrote:
CG Shall exclude large files and see how it goes.
What command do you use to do that?
I'm trying to find out! I've seen reference to a 'max file size'
parameter for clamav,
Hi Casper,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 11:15:15 AM, you wrote:
CGI've seen reference to a 'max file size'
CG parameter for clamav, althoough SME Server adds a layer of
CG complication by having its own configuration setup.
We both need to sort this out on SME7.0
Maybe the SME templates aren't
On 05/09/06, David Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Casper,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 11:15:15 AM, you wrote:
CGI've seen reference to a 'max file size'
CG parameter for clamav, althoough SME Server adds a layer of
CG complication by having its own configuration setup.
We both need to
Hi Casper,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 1:09:17 PM, you wrote:
CG -- there's an option for ArchiveMaxFileSize, but I think that's for, er,
CG archives. It probably isn't listed because the MaxFileSize value isn't
CG changed from the default, which is infinite.
Perhaps someone here can confirm
* On 05/09/06 11:07 +0100, David Woolley wrote:
| Hi Casper,
|
| Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 11:02:51 AM, you wrote:
|
| CG Shall exclude large files and see how it goes.
|
| What command do you use to do that?
Whatever sends the files to clamav for scanning, tell it not to send
files
Hi Odhiambo,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 1:49:17 PM, you wrote:
OW Whatever sends the files to clamav for scanning, tell it not to send
OW files larger than X (K, MB).
Thanks for that. Sorry to be a newb, but could you hazard a guess (perhaps
giving a typical linux example) how I can discover
* On 05/09/06 13:58 +0100, David Woolley wrote:
| Hi Odhiambo,
|
| Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 1:49:17 PM, you wrote:
| OW Whatever sends the files to clamav for scanning, tell it not to send
| OW files larger than X (K, MB).
|
|
| Thanks for that. Sorry to be a newb, but could you hazard a
Hi Odhiambo,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 2:17:52 PM, you wrote:
OW There must be a script running via a cron entry. On a standard Unix
OW system, there would be an entry in /etc/crontab. It would be a good
OW starting point, to see what runs at what schedule.
OW I am not sure what SME server is,
* On 05/09/06 14:27 +0100, David Woolley wrote:
| Hi Odhiambo,
|
| Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 2:17:52 PM, you wrote:
| OW There must be a script running via a cron entry. On a standard Unix
| OW system, there would be an entry in /etc/crontab. It would be a good
| OW starting point, to see what
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Casper Gasper wrote:
On 05/09/06, David Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Casper,
Monday, September 4, 2006, 12:33:11 PM, you wrote:
CGAny pointers for trouble-shooting this issue would be great.
CG I'm using ClamAV 0.88.4/1795/Sun Sep 3 23:48:24 2006
I've seen this behaviour too.
Hi Dennis,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 3:26:10 PM, you wrote:
DP Why don't you test this on only large files to see if it's even true?
OK. Good thought. How is this achieved?
I'm interested to know if there is a command in
clamscan to filter on filesize.
Is there a MaxFileSize or
At 01:41 PM 9/5/2006, David Woolley wrote:
I'm interested to know if there is a command in
clamscan to filter on filesize.
Is there a MaxFileSize or MinFileSize command line switch?
No. This would normally be done with whatever command
starts clamscan, eg. find / -type f -size -N | xargs
David Woolley wrote:
Hi Dennis,
Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 3:26:10 PM, you wrote:
DP Why don't you test this on only large files to see if it's even true?
OK. Good thought. How is this achieved?
You find or make some big files.
I'm interested to know if there is a command in
clamscan
I'm running SME Server 7.0, and the weekly file system scan
(smeserver-clamscan) locks up my server to the point where I can't log
in through the console. This happens about every 15 minutes after the
scan has started, it locks up instantly and I can't find anything at
all in the logs. I've
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