freshclam and clamd 0.74

[Ugo Bellavance]

Mike McMullen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have installed ClamAV .74 on an FC2 system. When I run
> freshclam it updates the database but then barfs complaining about
> being unable to update the clamd daemon.
>
> I'm not running clamd and don't need it for what we are doing on this
> server. I just need to scan certain directories which have data that has
> been scanned twice in different systems before it is placed there.
>
> Is there a way to tell freshclam that the daemon isn't running? I looked
> at /etc/clamav.conf but that appears to be just configuration for clamd.
>
> Any help appreciated!

Hmm, you shouldn't be using freshclam either, MailScanner updates the AV
automatically.  Just check your logs to make sure you find entries like:

Jul 21 15:01:00 lubik update.virus.scanners: Delaying cron job up to 600
seconds
Jul 21 15:01:55 lubik update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
Jul 21 15:01:56 lubik update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for clamav
Jul 21 15:01:56 lubik ClamAV-autoupdate[32256]: ClamAV did not need updating


>
> Mike
>
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