AW: Clamd and updates

[Julian Field]

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Ehle, Roland wrote:
>> 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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>> 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.
>   
Unless you have installed it using my easy-to-install package rather 
than RPMs. If you have installed it from source or using my 
easy-to-install package of ClamAV+SpamAssassin, then you will need 
/usr/local and not /usr.

Jules

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