clamav rpm update doesn't work

Remco Barendse mailscanner at BARENDSE.TO
Thu Sep 2 15:33:37 IST 2004


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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Julian Field wrote:
> 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.

That's what I checked at first but the wrapper script seems to work ok
when I test it (with 'default' settings).

It scans perfectly. I didn't try changing it because it might break
scanning?


Thanks!!

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