clamav 0.90.2 problem

Mike Tremaine mgt at stellarcore.net
Mon Apr 30 16:24:05 IST 2007


> Hi,
> 
> I've got a little problem with clamav. Freshclam seems to update just 
> fine but I got this error message at the end of the update when running 
> it with root:
> ClamAV update process started at Mon Apr 30 10:30:55 2007
> main.cvd is up to date (version: 43, sigs: 104500, f-level: 14, builder: 
> sven)
> daily.inc is up to date (version: 3184, sigs: 8782, f-level: 15, 
> builder: sven)
> LibClamAV Error: Database Directory: /usr/local/share/clamav not locked
> 
> The permissions on /usr/local/share/clamav:
> drwxrwxr-x 3 clamav clamav 4096 2007-04-30 10:29 clamav
> 
> I installed clamav with the package install-Clam-0.90.2-SA-3.1.8.tar.gz 
> found on MailScanner website. Anyone knows what's the problem ?
> 
> Thanks !
> --
> Claude


It means there was a lockfile left hanging when you did the install. 
Just remove it and everything should be ok.

[Look in /usr/local/share/clamav/ for the lock.]

-Mike


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