how to upgrade clamav?

[John Rudd]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Dave Shariff Yadallee - System 
Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:30:40AM +0700, Budi Febrianto wrote:
>>
>>
>> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info wrote on 07/14/2006 
>> 09:14:49 AM:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:29:51PM -0700, spart cus wrote:
>>>> hi guys,
>>>> how can i upgrade my clamav without affecting my mail server. im
>>> using centos4.2 mailscanner, spamassassin and clamav. i recently
>>> found some logs when i issued freshclam, saying i have to upgrade it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you compile straight from code or rpm?
>>>
>>>> tnx.
>>>>
>>>>
>>       I'm not an expert, but I ussually do (form the source)
>>       ./configure;make;make install
>>       always works for me... never have any problem... yet :)
>>
>
> Compile straight from code.
>
> Same method will work.
>
> Just remember to tell your server about the update.
>

I'm not sure, but I think if you're using the perl module, you have to 
restart mailscanner before it recognizes the new clamav library 
(though, that might happen "naturally" as the slave processes get 
turned over periodically).