ClamAV 0.90 (was Re: [Mimedefang] Mailing List still Active)

[Trevor Dodds]

I went over to .90 yesterday and reverted back to .88.7 as .90 killed my
machine.
With .88.7 it runs around 20% cpu usage and a load of .70 with clamav
.90 it runs at 90% with a load of 6.0
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A snippet from the clam-av mailing list:

> I've used clamav for some time now, and I'm very hapy with 
> it.Yesterday I tried to upgrade to 0.90, but after upgrading 
> mimedefang starts complaining about "Problem running virus-scanner", 
> so I downgraded to
> 0.88.7 again (and everthing start working again).
> 
> My setup:
> 
> Sendmail
> Mimedefang
> spamassassin
> clamav (I'm _not_ running clamd).
> 
> Anyone any idea?

Yes, mimedefang is still using quite ancient commandline arguments to
clamscan:

clamscan --mbox --stdout --disable-summary --infected $FILE

If you remove (in the mimedefang.pl source) all options except
"--stdout", it should work.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of
Jan-Pieter Cornet
Sent: 15 February 2007 02:58 PM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: ClamAV 0.90 (was Re: [Mimedefang] Mailing List still
Active)

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:29:07PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Jeff Grossman wrote:
> > So, it appears they removed the --mbox command line option?
> 
> #*$&*$#!!!!
> 
> So much for maintaining backward-compatibility.

Ermm... 0.88.* was already being backward-compatible by silently
ignoring the --mbox option (and --disable-summary). I can't get an exact
date from the Changelog, but it looks like those options have become
deprecated/unused somewhere in 2004...

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