Re: need help with clamd, freshclam & clamav-milter setup...

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Am Do, den 01.12.2005 schrieb Mike Leahy um 12:40:

> I'm wondering if anyone knows a fairly straightforward way to get ClamAV 
> running on FC4.  I got the rpms through yum, but this did not actually 
> install a daemon for clamd.  I was eventually able to hack a script into 
> the init.d folder that runs clamd, and I have clamav-milter running with

Did you read through the documentation the packages ship with? The
Fedora Extras packages have extra readmes.

> sendmail.  While I have all of this stuff running without errors 
> (services are all ok, as far as I can tell, sendmail is hooked into 
> clamav-milter).  However I have two problems.
> 
> First, I'm getting emails sent to root with the following warning:
> 
> WARNING: update of clamav database is disabled; please see
>    '/etc/sysconfig/freshclam'
>    for information how to enable the periodic update resp. how to turn
>    off this message.
> 
> I've looked at that file, and it's not very explanatory...does anyone 
> know how to get freshclam enabled?

The clamav-update package ships with a cron job, running every 3 hours.
As explained in the /etc/sysconfig/freshclam file you have to remove or
comment the line

FRESHCLAM_DELAY=disabled-warn

to activate automatic signature updates.

> Second, I tried sending the eicar test virus through my sendmail server, 
> but as far as I can tell, nothing was detected...and no logs 'at all' 
> are being generated by the clamav-milter service (even though the config 
> is telling it to).  What do I need to get sendmail/clamav-milter working 
> in harmony?  In this case, I'd almost prefer errors, so I'd have an idea 
> what might be the problem.

Without seeing your sendmail.mc configuration regarding the
clamav-milter setup it is hard to say what is going wrong.

> Mike

Alexander


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