Re: Question about ClamAV

[David Timms <dtimms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Ringwald wrote:
> > Version 0.88 is seriously out of date. You should go to 0.91.  I build
> > clamav from source on the production servers because I don't want to
> > wait for the packagers. It's pretty simple to do it.
> >
> > Here's my script:
> >
> >   [ download and untar, then CD into that directory]
> >   ./configure --enable-milter --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
> > - --sysconfdir=/etc --with-dbdir=/var/lib/clamav --disable-zlib-vcheck
> >    make
> >    make install
> >    /etc/init.d/clamd restart
> >    /etc/init.d/clamav-milter restart
> >
> > I don't know if the "disable-zlib-vcheck" is still required with F7, but
> >  it seems to work just fine.
As I understand it, there has not been much in the way of changes 
gcc/glibc between fc6 and f7, and hence f7 actually uses some packages 
for fc6.

Given that, you might find that clamav from f7 installs without trouble 
on fc6 {at clam v 0.90.

DaveT.