install-Clam-SA and clamd

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Sat Dec 1 17:31:29 GMT 2007


on 11/30/2007 11:23 PM Hugo van der Kooij spake the following:
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> Mark Nienberg wrote:
>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>> on 11/29/2007 4:17 PM Mark Nienberg spake the following:
>>>> A buddy of mine is doing a fresh install of MailScanner on a Centos 5
>>>> box and he reported to me that when he ran the install-Clam-SA script
>>>> and it gave him the option to install Dag's rpms instead he did so. 
>>>> But then when he reran the install script and told it that clam was
>>>> already installed, it tried to build Mail::ClamAV in addition to all
>>>> the SA stuff.
>>>>
>>>> The build of Mail::ClamAV failed, I assume because he did not install
>>>> Dag's clamav-devel rpm.  The script only says to install clamav,
>>>> clamav-db, and clamd from Dag.
>>>>
>>>> I think it would be best to skip the build of Mail::ClamAV if the
>>>> user says that clamav is already installed.  Or else tell the user to
>>>> install the devel package too.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>> You should have him look at the message with subject;
>>> Experimental repository for RHEL 5 / Centos 5
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.mailscanner/58545
>>>
>> I thought that the experimental yum repository only installed the
>> minimum MS package and dependencies.  If so, that doesn't really answer
>> the question about installing Clam and SA does it?
> 
> SA is considered a minimum requirement. I am preparing a test setup to
> document other packages in there that can be obtained through rpmforge.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> ClamAV:
> 	yum install clamav
> 	MailScanner.conf lines: ......
> 

I would possibly add clamd and perl-mail-clamav to give the enduser all 
possibilities of clam use.

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