Re: What is the "official way" to install clamav?

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On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:51 -0700, alan wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Ben Mohilef wrote:
> 
> > On 25 Jul 2005 at 19:26, Martín Marqués wrote:
> > 
> > > I used to have extras clamav and clamav-db, but finished installing
> > > dag's because the lack of clamd in extras. I prefer a daemon
> > > scanning.
> > > 
> > 
> > There is a "highly critical" security advisory on v. 86.1 . That 
> > version seems to be the latest I can find in FC3 extras.
> > 
> > Dag has the 86.2 version of the entire clam set which corrects the 
> > vulns. 
> > 
> > The dag update installs well, except that if you are running clamav-
> > milter with a quarantine file defined you need to explicitly put "--
> > external" in the sysconfig file or you get an arcane error stating that 
> > "timeout requires external" whether or not you explicily define a 
> > timeout. 
> > 
> > See:
> > http://secunia.com/advisories/16180/
> > 
> > for the gory details on the vulnerability.
> 
> Sounds like the solution is to get extras fixed, not just install from 
> Dag.
> 
> Has anyone submitted this to bugzilla?

As was mentioned earlier, the problem is fixed in Extras CVS but the
Extras buildsystem is undergoing a major overhaul and hasn't been
available for over a week, which is why no updates have happened yet;
new Extras packages are just starting to trickle out now.

Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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