[F8] Clamav-server 0.91.2-3 - what's with the changes?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Craig White wrote:
>Subject: Re: [F8] Clamav-server 0.91.2-3 - what's with the changes?
>
>On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 19:33 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> Seems that this version is missing some files:
>> 
>> /etc/clamd.conf
>> /etc/init.d/clamd
>> 
>> I note that in /etc/init.d, there is a file called:
>> clamd-wrapper
>> 
>> So, the question is, what are we to do with the missing
>> configuration file and why the clamd-wrapper?
>> 
>> >From what I can tell, 0.91.2-1 has the "old" files to which
>> most installation docs refer to so what is the configuration
>> and startup procedure involving the latest clamav-server?
>----
>I'm not sure what you've got installed or from where but if you were
>using dag packages, you would want clamav, clamav-db and clamd packages
>installed.
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Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Seems that this version is missing some files:
>> 
>> /etc/clamd.conf
>> /etc/init.d/clamd
>
>You have to install the clamav-server-sysv subpackage.
>
>The maintainer is a minimalist who doesn't have the standard initscripts 
>installed on his system and thus decided to have everyone using the default 
>Fedora setup suffer and have to install a pointless separate subpackage. :-(
>
>        Kevin Kofler

This comes directly from standard Fedora repository:

All version: 091.2-3.fc8

clamav.i386
clamav-data.i386
clamav-filesystem.i386
clamav-lib.i386
clamav-milter.i386
clamav-milter-sysv.i386
clamav-server.i386
clamav-server-sysv.i386
clamav-update.i386

So, Kevin, I did install the -sysv package as I did not have a choice.
It is a required dependency for milter.  I looked at the /etc/init.d/clamd-wrapper
script and it shows a test code that says:

test "$CLAMD_SERVICE" || {
    echo $"*** $0 can not be called in this way"
    echo $"*** Please see /usr/share/doc/clamav-server-*/README how"
    echo $"*** the clamav-server can be configured"
    exit 6
}

Reading the README file shows that setup is *very* different from before
as you can now create "instances" of clamd.  Oh boy, oh my.

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