freshclam and clamd 0.74

[Peter Bonivart]

Mike McMullen wrote:
> 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 installed Clam by RPM and didn't install the clamd RPM for the same
reasons you mentioned and got the same complaint. I just touched up an
empty /etc/clamav.conf and it went away.

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