clamav rpm update doesn't work

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 2 13:48:25 IST 2004


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At 13:21 02/09/2004, you wrote:
>I just switched from the clam tarball to the clamav rpm from the dag
>wieers repository (because the virus filtering web proxy gave me problems
>with the tarball version).
>
>I noticed however that MailScanner seems to be working find with clam rpm
>version only the update doesn't work :
>Sep  2 14:08:29 xxx ClamAV-autoupdate[31244]: ClamAV updater
>/usr/local/bin/freshclam cannot be run
>
>Apparently when usingthe rpm version of clam the freshclam script is
>located here:
>/usr/bin/freshclam
>
>Can we get the clamav update script to look for both locations?

The location of your clam installation needs to be set in
virus.scanners.conf. There is little point in making the update script
check both locations if the scanner itself can't be found by MailScanner.
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