gerard at seibercom
May 4, 2008, 1:24 PM
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OT: Re: clamav 0.93 on FreeBSD 4
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On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:12:40 GMT
Mark <admin[at]asarian-host.net> wrote:
> Well, there's a reason, of course, why I (and apparently others on
> this list, too) still run FreeBSD 4.11: it's their most stable
> release ever made. Far as I'm concerned, everything went down-hill
> after version 4 and up. Read their list. Currently Perl 5.8.8 won't
> even compile out of box on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE! And that's just one
> of many, many problems. So, I'll hang on to my dinosaur for a while,
> if you don't mind. :)
I have not experienced that problem. Where did you get that bit of
information from, if I might ask? I know that there was some mention of
a problem one individual had with Perl; however, like so many software
applications, there is always someone, somewhere, who cannot get a
particular application to install/run. It is just the nature of the
beast.
> For clamav (and other stuff) I already had to resort to the old
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> libpthread.so -> /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
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> trick, but it STILL runs smoothly.
>
> Regardless of OS version, though, it's always a good policy of the
> clamav makers to try and not break things too radically, or change
> around unnecessarily. I, for one, would be thoroughly screwed without
> clamav, as there's nothing, in the UNIX market at least, that comes
> even come close to clamav.
I can see making an effort to keep an application compatible with an
older OS version; however, at some point the inherent problems
encountered doing so out weight any possible benefit.
In any case, I am glad it works for you.
--
Gerard
gerard[at]seibercom.net
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our
programming languages.
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