Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] clamd: unable to connect
toUNIXsocket?/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (No such file or directory)
Stephen Gran wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:20:38AM +0800, W B Hacker said:
>> So ... now you've got me wondering if I dare upgrade ClamAV ...
>
> While we're now wandering fairly far off topic for this list, the
> question is really, dare you not? Take a look at the CVE list and ask
> yourself if it's really the right move to have a piece of software that
> you are purposefully feeding malicious input with that many open
> security holes.
>
Point taken.
Might as well drop it altogether as run it that stale...
>> .. the only other open questions are 'what ELSE is/was your box doing
>> when trying to update ClamAV?', and 'Is there HDD head-positioner
>> contention?'
>
> This really isn't about diagnosing the issue - it's a well known flaw in
> the parser algorithm before about 0.92.
>
> End of topic for me - I'll let people get back to discussing exim.
