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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