WARNINGS Ignoring deprecated option freebsd

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 08:35:09 GMT 2008


2008/12/9 Hiram Gibbard <gibbard at chem.fsu.edu>:
>
>
> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>
>> 2008/12/9 Hiram Gibbard <gibbard at chem.fsu.edu>:
>>>
>>> WHAT I AM USING FOR MAIL:
>>> CPU speed -> Dual 2.5 XEONs
>>> Memory -> 8GB
>>> Operating System -> FreeBSD 7.0
>>>
>>> pkg_info REPORTS:
>>> MailScanner-4.67.6_3
>>> clamav-0.94.2
>>> postfix-2.4.7,1
>>>
>>> I installed from ports, which is what the mailscanner.info site
>>> recommends.
>>> Of course its not the latest version of mailscanner. Should I use the
>>> download able tar version instead? I didn't have this problem using
>>> Mailscanner 4.61.7 and clamav 94.1.
>>>
>>>
>>> CURRENT mailscanner.conf settings
>>> #
>>> # Incoming Work Dir Settings
>>> # --------------------------
>>> #
>>> # You should not normally need to touch these settings at all,
>>> # unless you are using ClamAV and need to be able to use the
>>> # external archive unpackers instead of ClamAV's built-in ones.
>>>
>>> # If you want to create the temporary working files so they are owned
>>> # by a user other than the "Run As User" setting at the top of this file,
>>> # you can change that here.
>>> #
>>> # Note: If the "Run As User" is not "root" you cannot change the
>>> #       user but may still be able to change the group, if the
>>> #       "Run As User" is a member of both of the groups "Run As Group"
>>> #       and "Incoming Work Group"
>>> # Note: If the "Run As User" is "root" (or not set at all) and you are
>>> #       using the "clamd" virus scanner AND clamd is not running as root,
>>> #       then this must be set to the group clamd is using (from your
>>> #       clamd.conf), example:
>>> #       Incoming Work Group = clamav
>>> #       Incoming Work Permissions = 0640
>>> Incoming Work User = root
>>> Incoming Work Group = root
>>>
>>> I tried this with group mail too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PROBLEM THAT I WANT TO RESOLVE:
>>>
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --unzip
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --jar
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --tar
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --tgz
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --deb
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --unrar
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --arj
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --lha
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --unzoo
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --max-ratio
>>> Dec  9 11:48:02 mail MailScanner[730]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated
>>> option
>>> --unrar
>>> Dec  9 11:48:03 mail MailScanner[754]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>>> version 4.67.6 starting...
>>>
>>>
>>> I realize this was a topic before, but I have one question. Even though
>>> Mailscanner.info states to install by ports, should I still still get the
>>> latest version from the site and install that one instead?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> --
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Hiram Gibbard
>>> Florida State University
>>> Computer Support
>>>
>>> Department of Chemistry
>>> Phone: 850.644.3004
>>>  Fax: 850.644.8281
>>>  URL: http://www.chem.fsu.edu/~gibbard
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> --
>>> This message has been scanned for viruses and
>>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>>> believed to be clean.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> This is because you need the latest mailscanner version to be
>> compatible with clamav 0.94. So yes the tar.gz will be needed as the
>> port maintainer hasn't the time to upgrade the port at the moment (I
>> asked him off list a couple of weeks ago).
>>
>> I'm doing the move from ports to tar.gz version at the moment. If I
>> come across anything unusual when I do the final move tomorrow AM
>> (gmt) i'll let you know.
>>
>
> sorry to be naive, but I can't seem to figure out where the rc.Mailscanner
> file resides, or can be obtained. Can you point me in the right direction?
> This doesn't seem to be updated info:
> 6. Download /opt/MailScanner/bin/rc.MailScanner
>
>   Fetch the file from
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/freebsd/rc.MailScanner
>   chmod a=rx /opt/MailScanner/bin/rc.MailScanner
>  I got this out of INSTALL.FreeBSD
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------
> Hiram Gibbard
> Florida State University
> Computer Support
>
> Department of Chemistry
> Phone: 850.644.3004
>  Fax: 850.644.8281
>  URL: http://www.chem.fsu.edu/~gibbard
> --------------------------------------------
>

Not sure which instructions you're following but I concure that this
file no longer exists. I've just copied the ports one and modified it
to point at the new locations.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


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