upgrading GLIBC 1

[goproweb]

I am running Mandrake 9.0 as a server with apache and postfix, I use MailScanner and Clamav for scanning, I have clamav 0.60 and need to upgrade to the newer 0.70, however I get dependecy errors for GLIBC, I have 2.29 and it says I need 2.3 or better, every upgrade package I have tried has a ton of other dependency errors, I am paranoid about ignoring dependencies on installs....

I have 300 emails accounts on here so I want to do this as painless as possible, other than upgrading to 9.1 or higher in the whole OS, what can I do to upgrade my GLIBC?

Any tips would be appreciated.

Bill

 

[flugh]

If you are attempting to install an .rpm, you'd probably be better off either finding an rpm that matches your distribution version, or get the .src.rpm and rebuild it against your current version of glibc.

Personally, I woudn't consider upgrading glibc an option on a well-established production box with a lot of modifications. glibc and perl are a couple critters than an break darned near everything if it doesn't all go well ;-)

That being said, using 'urpmi' is a very dependable route in my experience. Maybe try a test-run with urpmi (not sure what the argument is to make it 'do nothing, just test') to be sure you have all your required rpm sources.

Me, I'd grab source and build clamav. I built the one running on my mail server with no problems or funkiness. Come to think of it, it could stand an upgrade. Think it's running .60 too

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JBR

 

[goproweb]

Thanks for the valuable info, yes you do need to upgrade to 0.65 or better, on the Clamav site they said above .60 uses a different data format, in the FAQ's it was asked if they were going to continue to support 0.60 with updates and they said yes for now, but they might not in the future, and they claim it is worth the trouble for the added reliability and they talked like the data conmversion in the upgrade was a piece of cake (where have I heard that before)

Mine works great and I have a cron job update it daily, but for some reason the Beagle virus is getting thru, have you noticed that? I would have thought they would have that one in by now. Stops a lot of them, but not the Beagle

 

[flugh]

Hmm, I haven't noticed Beagle getting through, but then again, it is a stupidly low traffic server (maybe 10 messages in last 2 months)! Not enough input on my end to make a good judgement call.

About to put my personal domain's mail through the same box, that should tell the tale. I have a 'sacrificial' email that's on about 14 million spammers' lists, so it gets close to 200 spams per day.

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JBR