[Clamav-users] Problem with internal logger

[Julian Field]

On 2 Jun 2006, at 16:24, Kevin Miller wrote:

> Anthony Peacock wrote:
>> Hi Julian,
>>
>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1 Jun 2006, at 16:30, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>>>
>>>> Julian Field wrote on Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:04:52 +0100:
>>>>
>>>>> My easy-to-install ClamAV+SA package configures freshclam.conf and
>>>>> spamd.conf for you, by commenting out the "Example" lines.
>>>>
>>>> and then sets the mirror to US ?
>>>
>>> No, as I don't know what country you might be in. It just gets it
>>> working for you, saving new users a nasty catch which will confuse
>>> them entirely. Doing things like this annoys me, as they don't
>>> produce a nice error message telling the user what they need to do
>>> to alleviate the problem. It's a case of "Switch this option on to
>>> make anything work, default is off". I know I do it myself, but I do
>>> at least generate a polite error message which tells the user they
>>> need to set their company name in MailScanner.conf.
>>>
>>> I am considering removing it from MailScanner.
>>> If the %org-name% has not been configured, then I just use the  
>>> domain
>>> name by using Sys::Hostname::Long which is already needed by
>>> SpamAssassin so most people have it installed already. I replace the
>>> hostname with www to get the website address, and put the same in
>>> %org-long-name% as %org-name%.
>>>
>>> Does that sound rather better than the current "I'm not going to
>>> start" behaviour.
>>
>> I wouldn't really be in favour of this.
>>
>> A side-effect of the current behaviour is that it forces the person
>> installing the system to at least open and look at the config file
>> first.
>>
>> I don't think anyone should be installing something as important as
>> mailscanner without at least understanding what the default options
>> are doing.
>
> I think it's a good idea.  Only thing I'd do differently is to use the
> hostname instead of www + domain-name.  That would keep it shorter (I
> like concise), and the comments mention that periods sometimes hose  
> the
> Symantic virus scanner or something to that effect.  Don't use  
> Symantic
> so didn't pay too close attention.

The %web-site% is only ever used in the message body, not in a  
header. But you are right about the other ones having dots in them  
which might confuse Symantec's scanner. I will just change the dots  
to dashes or underscores.

Thanks for pointing that out, it hadn't occurred to me.

>
> Maybe I'm just being grumpy, but I think anybody installing something
> like MailScanner w/o looking at the docs deserves what they get! <g>

That's very easy for an experienced user to say :-)
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