ClamAV for postfix-courier-mysql (Debian - Sarge)

[toastmaster]

Hello,

I completed the howto on postfix-courier-mysql with amavis (Great HowTo ). My question is about the clamav installation. I get the follwoing error message whenever freshclam runs:

Received signal: wake up
ClamAV update process started at Sun Feb 12 07:25:09 2006
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.84 Recommended version: 0.88
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
main.cvd is up to date (version: 35, sigs: 41649, f-level: 6, builder: tkojm)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, recommended = 6
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 1283, sigs: 2410, f-level: 7, builder: diego)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, recommended = 7
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html

I have checked out the clamav site and read about my options for upgrading. I am just really worried about breaking my install. I am not really sure how to proceed.

Question 1: Should I try to upgrade to the latest version 0.88? Is 8.4 the latest version to be officially released with Debian?

Question 2: is it better to compile from source or use a binary distribution? I see that there are some "unofficial" packages here:
deb http://people.debian.org/˜sgran/debian sarge main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/˜sgran/debian sarge main
what are the risks of using unofficial binaries?

Question 3: What is the safest way to go about upgrading.

Toastmaster

[falko]

Originally Posted by toastmaster

Question 1: Should I try to upgrade to the latest version 0.88? Is 8.4 the latest version to be officially released with Debian?

Yes, you can try to upgrade. The official version coming with Sarge is 0.84, I believe.

Originally Posted by toastmaster

Question 2: is it better to compile from source or use a binary distribution? I see that there are some "unofficial" packages here:
deb http://people.debian.org/˜sgran/debian sarge main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/˜sgran/debian sarge main
what are the risks of using unofficial binaries?

I'd try the unofficial packages first. If they don't work (which I don't believe) you can still install from the sources.

[toastmaster]

Hey Falko,

I just wanted to say thank you for all of your help. I updated my ClamAV using the binaries and it worked great. All I had to fix after the install was to remove the "proxy:" statements from /etc/postfix/main.cf and the server is working great. You guys are the coolest .