Freshclam Location

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edit the file /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate
find the line that says
$PackageDir.......
change it to this location instead
$PackageDir = shift || "/usr";
Then restart mailscanner

Errol Uriel Neal Jr. wrote:

>I believe you need to edit virusscanners.conf.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike McMullen <mlm at LOANPROCESSING.NET>
>Date:         Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:44:27
>To:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Freshclam Location
>
>Hi All,
>
>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?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike
>
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