[clamav-users] Warning in ClamAV update process

Joel Esler (jesler) jesler at cisco.com
Thu Sep 11 20:48:20 UTC 2014


> On Sep 11, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/11/2014 4:25 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
>> On Sep 11, 2014, at 7:15 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com<mailto:gheskett at wdtv.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thursday 11 September 2014 05:10:52 Tommy Berglund did opine
>> And Gene did reply:
>> Den 2014-09-11 09:59, Al Varnell skrev:
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Tommy Berglund wrote:
>> I always get these warnings and it is always ip 192.121.13.5
>> Any way to avoid these warnings?
>> 
>> That mirror appear to be located in Sweden. Depending on where in the
>> world you are located, you _might_ see improvement by changing the
>> following in freshclam.conf:
>> Yes I live in Sweden, has tried with Database Mirror db.se.clamav.net<http://db.se.clamav.net>
>> and it gets the same results. Always the same server that gives error,
>> maybe not available anymore.
>> 
>> Question for ClamAV® team.  Have you done away with the Mirror Status
>> page? (was http://www.clamav.net/mirrors.html)  I used it quite
>> often to troubleshoot issues such as this one.
>> 
>> I get error 404 for this page http://www.clamav.net/mirrors.html
>> perhaps also not available anymore.
>> 
>> Thanks Al for your answers!
>> 
>> I also am getting a 404, but the rotating red devils head graphic is a new
>> image to me.  Since its a giant version of the same image at
>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml, I have to assume that the
>> mirrors.html file is missing from the clamav.net<http://clamav.net> server.
>> 
>> Well, it doesn’t exist on the new server.  I just answered this in another thread as well, but this page (and the stats page) weren’t ready for the new site yet.  We’re still working in it.
>> 
>> 
>> It looks to me as if the left hand is not communicating with the right
>> hand, and is systematically trying to destroy clamav.  We expect that from
>> M$, but your new management does not seem to be on the same page as its
>> users have been for years.
>> 
>> I don’t think there is anyone “systematically trying to destroy clamav”, and take issue with that statement.
>> 
>> What can I do better to communicate to you?  My statistics on usage and downloads don’t illustrate what you are complaining about, so what can I do to make it better for you?
> 
> Step one would be fixing your email program so that it properly marks quoted text.  Your replies are getting mixed in with the quoted text so that we can't tell where the quote ends and your response begins.
> 
> Take a look above.  There are comments from Gene Heskett, Tommy Berglund, Al Varnell, and yourself.  Can you tell who is saying what?

Yeah, beta email client.  :)




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