switching from clamavmodule -> clamd... source?

[Julian Field]

Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
>> Make sure that /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf points to the
>>     
> right
>   
>> installation (i.e. /usr or /usr/local). Then it will call
>> /usr/bin/freshclam for you.
>>     
>
> So if freshclam is located in /usr/local/bin/freshclam I need to put
> /usr/local in virus.scanners.conf?
>   
Correct.
> What is the advantage over using the freshclam daemon?
>   
There isn't a freshclam daemon. My clamav-autoupdate scripts call the 
freshclam program to do the actual work anyway.

Jules

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