ClamV updates

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> Thank you for the replies, however I still cannot quite figure this out
> as I am still getting the outdated clamav message in my logwatch.
> 
> I think I know the problem but I do not know how to fix it.
> 
> - If I just type freshclam anywhere, it saids that it is up to date.
> How can I see what install of freshclam that it is using?

whish freshclam

> 
> - If I type /usr/bin/freshclam I get the outdated message.  I had a big
> newbie moment on this one.  I thought that if I change to the /usr/bin
> directory and run freshclam that the machine would use the freshclam in
> that directory.  Therefore I thought in the past that the
> /usr/bin/freshclam was up to date.  However this is not the case and
> this is the install that seems that logwatch uses.
> 
> - If I type /root/clamav/bin/freshclam, I get:
> 
> ERROR: Please edit the example config file
> /root/clamav/etc/freshclam.conf.ERROR: Please edit the example config
> file /root/clamav/etc/clamd.conf.    ERROR: Can't parse the config file
> /root/clamav/etc/clamd.conf             
> 
> So this freshclam doesn't even seem to be configured.
> 
> - If I type /usr/local/bin/freshclam I get:
> ClamAV update process started at Thu Jun 30 09:42:59 2005
> main.cvd is up to date (version: 32, sigs: 34720, f-level: 5, builder:
> tkojm)
> daily.cvd is up to date (version: 960, sigs: 1401, f-level: 5, builder:
> diego)

Check if you have a /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanner.conf.rpmnew.

Or check the path to clamav in /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanner.conf

You probably just have to change the path to /usr/local

> 
> Here is the command "locate freshclam" if this helps any.  You can
> probably see that it is installed more than once.
> 
> /root/clamav/bin/freshclam
> /root/clamav/etc/freshclam.conf
> /root/clamav/man/man1/freshclam.1
> /root/clamav/man/man5/freshclam.conf.5
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log.2
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log.4
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log.1
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log.3
> /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
> /var/log/freshclam.log
> /etc/freshclam.conf
> /etc/freshclam.conf.rpmnew
> /etc/logrotate.d/freshclam
> /etc/cron.daily/freshclam
> /usr/bin/freshclam
> /usr/local/bin/freshclam
> /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf
> /usr/local/man/man1/freshclam.1
> /usr/local/man/man5/freshclam.conf.5
> /usr/share/doc/clamav-0.85.1/freshclam.conf
> /usr/share/man/man1/freshclam.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man5/freshclam.conf.5.gz
> 
> So the /usr/local/bin/freshclam seems to be the one that is up to date.
> The other 2 installs are not.  So it seems that I have it installed 3
> times! Argg.  How do I get logwatch/mailscanner/basically the whole
> machine to use one version of clamav and it be the correct one?
> 
> Please any suggestion on how to clean up this clamav mess that I created
> it appreciated.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Billy Pumphrey
> IT Manager
> Wooden & McLaughlin
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
>>Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:14 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: ClamV updates
>>
>>Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
>>
>>>I about have it figured out (your email gave it to me).  I figured
> 
> out
> 
>>>how it works, sort of.  I did this.
>>>
>>>I have clamav-0.84rc1 installed.
>>>
>>>I got yum to use the dap repository.  I do a yum search clam and it
>>>returns results for clamav.i386 and others.
>>>
>>>Yum update clamav does not work.  Yum update clamav.i386 did not
> 
> work.
> 
>>>I did yum install clamav.i386 and it appeared to install the latest
>>>version.  Then I ran freshclam and it still says that I am updated.
>>>
>>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>Must be a problem with your yum config.  'yum install clamav' should
> 
> work.
> 
>>You'll probably need clamav-db as well.
>>
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