AW: Clamd and updates

[Ehle, Roland]

> Just noticed in my logfile :-
>
> Dec 30 12:30:02 mailhub update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed
> Dec 30 12:30:02 mailhub update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
> generic
> Dec 30 12:30:02 mailhub update.virus.scanners: Found esets installed
> Dec 30 12:30:02 mailhub update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
> esets
> Dec 30 12:30:02 mailhub esets-autoupdate[11205]: esets updated
>
> which shows that Clam is not being updated.  Now I guess that is
> because no wrapper exists for ClamD.  I appreciate I can run freshclam
> but how is this controlled through MS ?
>
> Also, when I run a lint against my MS installation I get the following
> :-
>
> [root at mailhub bin]# ./MailScanner --lint
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
> Checking version numbers...
> Version number in MailScanner.conf (4.66.2) is correct.
>
> Your envelope_sender_header in spam.assassin.prefs.conf is correct.
>
> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> SpamAssassin temp dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = esets clamd"
> Found these virus scanners installed: esets, clamd
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> ====
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> ====
> Virus Scanner test reports:
> esets said "Found virus Eicar test file in eicar.com"
>
> If any of your virus scanners (esets,clamd)
> are not listed there, you should check that they are installed
> correctly
> and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its
> virus.scanners.conf.
>
>
> so eicar is being picked up via esets but not by clamd ????
>
> Any thoughts or ideas ? TIA

Could you please check your /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf. All clam* entries there should have /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper  /usr.

Regards,
Roland