[Zeffie-Users] Re: [23/2] clamav

[Craig Dewick]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Zeffie-Users-request at zeffie.net wrote:

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> From: "Zeffie" <zeffie at zeffie.net>
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> I have the clamav/spamassassin package from zeffie installed on my server,
> and from time to time the freshclam fails to, or corrupts the dialy file,
> and clamav won't start properly.  Is there a way to prevent this from
> happening?  By the time I figure out what's happening, it's usually a few
> hours into the problem, and my users have lost quite a few emails, and that
> is a big problem for some of my clients.  Is there some configuration I can
> edit to force clam av to start, or use old daily files, or something?
> Thanks.
> Gregg
> Your install is from Feb of 2004...  You would need me to update the
> clamav...  it's really old!!

I'm still using the default sendmail on my Raq4 and the lack of a spam 
filtering system on it really annoys me. 8-)

I'd really like to replace sendmail with postfix and integrate 
SpamAssassin that way (which is how I do it on my Sun servers, etc. 
elsewhere), but while the 'official' MTA is sendmail and Chillisoft 
expects to see Sendmail on the system, it's best to stick with that and 
integrate the spam-filtering into sendmail.

Which gets to the next point - I have not done any sendmail config work 
for a long time (almost 10 years!) and use Postfix exclusively so I'm 
familiar with how that works.

Can a spamassassin package for a Raq really be a 'drop in' addition to the 
existing sendmail installation? I'm sure it requires configuration to get 
working but perhaps that's sorted out at the same time as the filtering 
package is installed?

BTW, what's the best way to get the main perl installation upgraded? I 
want to dump the perl-5.005 installation and use perl-5.8.7 instead but 
there's something about the default perl which prevents it being 
completely replaced... Sun (or Cobalt before 2000) must have done 
something to make replacing perl difficult. 8-)

Craig.

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