freshclam error

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 19 08:58:09 IST 2004


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You can't stop it running the "generic" autoupdate script. However, I will
tweak the script slightly so it doesn't log anything happened if you
haven't changed its autoupdate.

At 01:37 19/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Julian,
>
>I found a problem, if not _the_ problem.  There was an old version of
>freshclam in /usr/bin, the new version was in /usr/local/bin, and /usr/bin
>was first in the path.  I deleted the old version, but then attempts to run
>it came back with "can't find freshcalm in /usr/bin" so I dropped a link to
>the new one in /usr/bin.  Freshclam seems to be working now.
>
>But... how do I tell the script not to run the "generic" wrapper?
>
>Here's what is in maillog when i run update_virus_scanners:
>Oct 18 17:29:54 organizer update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
>Oct 18 17:29:54 organizer update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for clamav
>Oct 18 17:29:55 organizer ClamAV-autoupdate[16419]: ClamAV did not need
>updating
>Oct 18 17:29:55 organizer update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed
>Oct 18 17:29:55 organizer update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
>generic
>Oct 18 17:29:55 organizer Generic-autoupdate[16451]: Generic scanner
>successfully updated
>Oct 18 17:29:56 organizer update.virus.scanners: Found sophos installed
>Oct 18 17:29:56 organizer update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for sophos
>Oct 18 17:29:57 organizer Sophos-autoupdate[16508]: Sophos successfully
>updated in /usr/local/Sophos/386.200410181729
>
>On Monday 18 October 2004 04:49 pm, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 00:46 19/10/2004, you wrote:
> > >Yikes!
> > >
> > >OS is RH 8.0.  I just upgraded from 4.24 to 4.34.8.  I had clamav and
> > > sophos installed and working with 4.24.  In addition to running the MS
> > > install script I ran the one that installs clamav and SA.
> > >
> > >Running freshclam gives me this:
> > >"freshclam: relocation error: freshclam: undefined symbol: cl_gentemp"
> >
> > What happens when you run update_virus_scanners?
>
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