ClamAv updater failed

[Julian Field]

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Dhawal Doshy wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> You must always put the pathname (indicated at the end of the relevant
>> line in virus.scanners.conf) on the end of the command-line for all the
>> updaters. This is essential as it tells the updater where the virus
>> scanner is actually installed.
>>
>> Don't run them without this unless you want really random results.
>>
>
> Didn't know this one.. i kept wondering why a change to $PackageDir in
> clamav-autoupdate didn't work (and never bothered to ask)
>
The whole idea is that you normally run update_virus_scanners to do them
all, configuring them in virus.scanners.conf.

Please don't tweak my code! (Most of) it is written for a reason :-)

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