Virus updates

[G. Armour Van Horn]

Greetings,

On my RedHat 7.2 machine that's been running MailScanner for over a year, I
never had f-prot's update work, but at least when there was a new definition
file I got a failure notice from cron so I could use my own wget/tar script
to fetch the new files. I didn't worry about it too much, as I have been
planning on moving the MailScanner function to a new machine.

Well, the new machine has been running for about ten days so far, and the
new setup checks to updates every hour without my having done anything at
all. However, I don't think it actually does anything. Every mail I get says
this:

> /etc/cron.hourly/update_virus_scanners:
>
>        Found clamav installed
>        Updating clamav
>        Found f-prot installed
>        Updating f-prot
>

When I look in /usr/local/f-prot, the MACRO* and SIGN* files are dated 23
August, while on the old machine the files are dated on the 25th and 29th
respectively. I think I've updated the SIGN* files four times in that
period.

I have no idea if the ClamAV definitions have been updated in that period, I
just started running it and I don't know where it keeps the files or even
what they are called.

Where should I start looking?

Van

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