Freshclam Location

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

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Mike McMullen wrote:

> I'm setting up a new mail server. I just installed
> MailScanner-4.36.4-1. I tried
> installing it from the tar file, had a few issues and then tried
> installing it from
> the RPMs on an FC2 system. This all went ok.
>
> Now however I get the following messages in my logs regarding ClamAV auto
> updates:
>
> Dec 29 17:31:23 mail update.virus.scanners: Delaying cron job up to
> 600 seconds
> Dec 29 17:38:54 mail update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
> Dec 29 17:38:54 mail update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for clamav
> Dec 29 17:38:54 mail ClamAV-autoupdate[11389]: ClamAV updater
> /usr/local/bin/freshclam cannot be run
> Dec 29 17:38:54 mail update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed
> Dec 29 17:38:54 mail update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
> generic
>
> My freshclam location is /usr/bin/freshclam. Where can I tell
> Mail-Scanner to find
> it there?


you have to remove the tar-version
# make uninstall

or eg.
# rm /usr/local/bin/freshlam


if you get permission-errors whith  /usr/bin/freshclam
set the permissions for the user clamav

# chown clamav:clamav /path/to/error-files

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shrek-m

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