Question on upgrading ClamAV

Ed Bruce ebruce at HPMICH.COM
Tue Feb 1 17:01:38 GMT 2005


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Did the install change your conf files. Check your freshclam.conf, did
it change? The default directory for the database is /var/lib/clamav.

Jason Williams wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> Had a quick question on upgrading clamav on my mailscanner setup.
> My setup:
>
> FreeBSD 4.9
> Sendmail 8.12.11
> MailScanner 4.29 (Yes, I know it needs updating) :)
>
> I came in this morning and updated my clamav from 0.80 to 0.81.
> Everything appeared to have gone well. However, I know get a funny error
> when I try and run 'freshclam' to update my definitions. I get the
> following:
>
> Can't change dir to /usr/local/share/clamav
>
> Doing a little bit of work, I see that it is possibly looking in the
> wrong
> directory. It should be looking in:
>
> /usr/local/share/doc/clamav
>
> Now, I know this is clamav, but i was hoping some of the other FreeBSD
> users on this list might be able to shed some light on what the possible
> problem may be.
>
> I am going to jump over to www.clamav.net here, but there list is
> boogered
> up right now.
>
> Anyway, I was hoping somebody here may have an idea and could help me
> out.
>
> I appreciate the help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
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