clamav rpm update doesn't work

[Julian Field]

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At 11:21 03/09/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Martin Sapsed wrote:
>>Remco Barendse wrote:
>>>That's what I checked at first but the wrapper script seems to work ok
>>>when I test it (with 'default' settings).
>>
>>Have you still got the copy under /usr/local/ ? Is the wrapper using
>>that? When you try the wrapper, do you add the path defined in
>>virus.scanners.conf as the first argument to the wrapper? If not, then I
>>think the wrapper uses the path or something like that? I've got bitten
>>by this before both when fiddling with Sophos locations and moving from
>>clam tar to clam .deb.
>>
>>>It scans perfectly. I didn't try changing it because it might break
>>>scanning?
>>
>>Change the conf file. Do what Julian says - he's the boss!! ;-)
>
>Lol!
>
>I'm not sure about the directory. To remove the tyhe tarball I did a
>locate -i clam and removed every match to that. Guess that should have
>eradicated all files from the tarball version :)
>
>When I do locate -i now it shows (doc stuff omitted):
>/var/log/clamav
>/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
>/var/log/clamav/clamav.log
>/var/run/clamav
>/var/clamav
>/var/clamav/main.cvd
>/var/clamav/daily.cvd
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd
>/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K39clamd
>/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K39clamd
>/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S61clamd
>/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K39clamd
>/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S61clamd
>/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S61clamd
>/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K39clamd
>/etc/cron.daily/freshclam
>/etc/logrotate.d/freshclam
>/etc/logrotate.d/clamav
>/etc/freshclam.conf
>/etc/clamav.conf
>/usr/share/man/man1/clamscan.1.gz
>/usr/share/man/man1/freshclam.1.gz
>/usr/share/man/man1/clamdscan.1.gz
>/usr/share/man/man5/freshclam.conf.5.gz
>/usr/share/man/man5/clamav.conf.5.gz
>/usr/share/man/man8/clamd.8.gz
>/usr/sbin/clamd
>/usr/bin/clamscan
>/usr/bin/freshclam
>/usr/bin/clamav-config
>/usr/bin/clamdscan
>/usr/include/clamav.h
>/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libclamav.pc
>/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate
>/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper
>/usr/lib/libclamav.so.1
>/usr/lib/libclamav.so.1.0.4
>/usr/lib/libclamav.a
>/usr/lib/libclamav.so
>/usr/local/bin/freshclam  (this is the symlink i created  ->
>/usr/bin/freshclam)
>
>I wonder why the wrapper script still works but the update doesn't.

Are you trying to run the update on its own, and not just letting the
update_virus_scanners cron job do it for you? If so, you need to put
/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate /usr

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