Folks, I just yum'd clamav last night for my mailserver. There do not appear to be any man pages for this package. Is there just web documents on what to do to create the configuration file, or is that already done, and I haven't found it yet?
Thanks..
sam
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Folks, I just yum'd clamav last night for my mailserver. There do not appear to be any man pages for this package. Is there just web documents on what to do to create the configuration file, or is that already done, and I haven't found it yet? Thanks..
Try /etc/clamd.conf /etc/freshclam
Also, the docs should located in /usr/share/doc/clamav-whatever-version/, or online http://www.clamav.net/doc/.
The default I believe is to create the /etc/clamd.conf file, but it's not configured.
Max
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Folks, I just yum'd clamav last night for my mailserver. There do not appear to be any man pages for this package. Is there just web documents on what to do to create the configuration file, or is that already done, and I haven't found it yet? Thanks..
Sam,
I just checked. If you don't have the clamd package installed, then the /etc/clamd.conf file will not be created. The packages I have installed are as follows:
clamav-0.88.1-1.el4.rf clamd-0.88.1-1.el4.rf clamav-db-0.88.1-1.el4.rf
I'm assuming you got everything but the clamd package. Install that from Dag's repo, then your /etc/clamd.conf file will be there to edit. Then just do a service clamd start...the usual.
Max
Max H. wrote:
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Folks, I just yum'd clamav last night for my mailserver. There do not appear to be any man pages for this package. Is there just web documents on what to do to create the configuration file, or is that already done, and I haven't found it yet? Thanks..
Sam,
I just checked. If you don't have the clamd package installed, then the /etc/clamd.conf file will not be created. The packages I have installed are as follows:
clamav-0.88.1-1.el4.rf clamd-0.88.1-1.el4.rf clamav-db-0.88.1-1.el4.rf
I'm assuming you got everything but the clamd package. Install that from Dag's repo, then your /etc/clamd.conf file will be there to edit. Then just do a service clamd start...the usual.
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Thanks for the info Max. I'd have never thought it would be separate pkgs for the thing.
Regards,
Sam
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Thanks for the info Max. I'd have never thought it would be separate pkgs for the thing.
That threw me off too the first time I installed too. Also to note, it already creates the cron entries necessary to run the updates daily (freshclam), so all you have to do is start the service, and the rest is pretty much automated. You can of course stop that and make it into a daemon as well, but why bother if they already have it scripted to create the necessary log files, etc...
There are other steps to take if you want to have it scanning your mail, but the docs on their site walk you through that.
Max
Rgr that Max. Already got it going and reading thru the info now. Sure glad things work as they do. Great job the developers are doing. It's just nice that everything *just works* !
Sam
Max H. wrote:
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Thanks for the info Max. I'd have never thought it would be separate pkgs for the thing.
That threw me off too the first time I installed too. Also to note, it already creates the cron entries necessary to run the updates daily (freshclam), so all you have to do is start the service, and the rest is pretty much automated. You can of course stop that and make it into a daemon as well, but why bother if they already have it scripted to create the necessary log files, etc...
There are other steps to take if you want to have it scanning your mail, but the docs on their site walk you through that.
Max
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Sam Drinkard wrote on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:42:10 -0400:
Thanks for the info Max. I'd have never thought it would be separate pkgs for the thing.
Ah, well, now I know why freshclam barks about not finding clamd.conf. I do not need it, but freshclam seems to want at least have a look at it.
Kai
I just installed clamav last night. yum -y install clamav found nothing, which seemed strange. A search revealed no clamav on the server.
So I pulled down the stable release, built and installed it, all in about 30 minutes.
This is one of the clearest-documented tools I've worked with.
Now I'm about to try and tie it to DEVCOT. That won't be 30 minutes.
Mark Richards wrote:
I just installed clamav last night. yum -y install clamav found nothing, which seemed strange. A search revealed no clamav on the server.
So I pulled down the stable release, built and installed it, all in about 30 minutes.
clamav is hosted in a couple of repositories, consider using one of them ? atleast that assures you of an update path.
Mark Richards wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:10:54 -0400:
I just installed clamav last night. yum -y install clamav found nothing, which seemed strange. A search revealed no clamav on the server.
So I pulled down the stable release, built and installed it, all in about 30 minutes.
It's indeed very easy to build. I did it the first few times I ever installed it. But having a few more servers being able to update them from yum is a clear plus ;-)
Kai
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