current qmail-scanner port with clamav and f-prot fails on
4testvirus.org messages
Rick Updegrove
dislists at updegrove.net
Wed Apr 14 07:34:03 PDT 2004
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Thanks for the reply Chuck,
> At least in the case of ClamAV, one ought to run freshclam on a
> regular
> basis, and the port provides a daemon which will keep your definitions
> up-to-date automaticly.
Thankfully the port sets that up, and I read the documentation.
qscand 2476 0.0 0.2 1520 896 ?? S 7:08AM 0:00.02
/usr/local/bin/clamdscan -r --disable-summary --max-recursion=10
--max-space=1000000 /usr/local/qmailscan/tmp/xxx.ca.gov10819517244792470
> If your complaint is that neither vendor's most recent definitions
> fail
> to catch some known viruses, that's a different problem, which you
> should discuss with the vendors directly, since that has little to do
> with FreeBSD ports.
First of all it is the qmail-scanner port itself that is missing
password protected .zip files because it is a version behind still.
Maybe you missed the relevant portions of the original post.
Secondly, the most recent vendor's most recent definitions don't always
work when you are a version or two behind on the scan engine itself.
Thirdly, I am not complaining. I am trying to help all the users of
these ports by shedding light on the facts. Of course I (we) have the
ability to manually install these packages using the current sources and
if I get many more replies like this I will just do that and forget
about trying to help make these ports work properly. If I (we) have to
do that then why even bother to maintain a FreeBSD port for these
packages at all if they don't work effectively?
Lastly, my point is these "ports" are all current according to
"portupgrade -rva" and have current virus definitions yet the
combination allow viruses to get through. This seems somewhat relevant
to FreeBSD ports to me.
So now that we have cleared up a few things, who wants to discuss a
strategy to maintain an effective FreeBSD virus-scanner port for qmail?
Rick
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