Solved: Re: Freshclam Location

[Mike McMullen]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "shrek-m at gmx.de" <shrek-m at GMX.DE>


> 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
>
> --
> shrek-m
>
Hi shrek, this cleaned up my mess nicely. Thanks to everyone else who suggested
editing the virus.scanners.conf. Doing that got the updating going.

Mike

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