KlamAV and Dazuko

[John Aldrich]

<RANT>Here's a silly question... Why in the world would Fedora provide KlamAV 
for antivirus and NOT provide the Dazuko module needed to scan the 
filesystem? Seems kinda silly to me...and I *really* don't feel like 
recompiling the kernel just to have the freakin' Dazuko module. It just don't 
make sense to me...

Maybe it's just me. Dunno... </RANT>
    John

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 11/10/06, John Aldrich < hidden > wrote:
> <RANT>Here's a silly question... Why in the world would Fedora provide KlamAV
> for antivirus and NOT provide the Dazuko module needed to scan the
> filesystem? Seems kinda silly to me...and I *really* don't feel like
> recompiling the kernel just to have the freakin' Dazuko module. It just don't
> make sense to me...
>
> Maybe it's just me. Dunno... </RANT>
>         John

Well

Fedora Extras provides Klamav which means a community member did the
packaging for it!

You can file a Request bug to the packager of klamav in
bugzilla.redhat.com to package it for the fedora community.

chitlesh

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:31:12 -0500
John Aldrich  wrote:
> <RANT>Here's a silly question... Why in the world would Fedora provide KlamAV 
> for antivirus and NOT provide the Dazuko module needed to scan the 
> filesystem?

Because clamav is actually rather useful without Dazuko and because
Dazuko to put it mildly has some quality and correctness concerns.

[Kevin Kofler]

John Aldrich <john <at> chattanooga.net> writes:
> <RANT>Here's a silly question... Why in the world would Fedora provide KlamAV 
> for antivirus and NOT provide the Dazuko module needed to scan the 
> filesystem? Seems kinda silly to me...and I *really* don't feel like 
> recompiling the kernel just to have the freakin' Dazuko module. It just don't 
> make sense to me...
>
> Maybe it's just me. Dunno... </RANT>

See:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-October/msg02243.html
If you use Dazuko 2.3.2-pre1, then you don't need the patch mentioned in the 
HOWTO (step 2), it has been merged upstream. Also, step 10 (configuring clamd) 
is taken care of by KlamAV. Steps 11 and 12 probably are, too.

Kevin Kofler