clamav getting uuencoded format error
Derek Broughton
derek at pointerstop.ca
Sun Mar 8 17:38:03 UTC 2009
David Karr wrote:
> I've seen some mentions of this in searching, but not really what to do
> about it.
>
> My clamav scan is now pretty quiet, except for a single message:
>
> LibClamAV Error: Message is not in uuencoded format
>
> I believe there's a bug filed to resolve this, but I think a separate bug
> should be that it doesn't print the name of the file that it's scanning at
> the time.
>
> Am I going to have to do a --verbose run to figure out what file is having
> a problem with this?
No idea, but I'd just like to mention that this is my number 1 pet peeve
about programming. Please, people, if you're going to trap errors, print
ALL the data about the error. Otherwise you might as well just let the
program fail - I can debug that.
--
derek
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