On Friday 27 June 2008 19:43:06 Anne Wilson wrote: > rm /var/clamav/* -rf > which will remove all the signatures. Don't worry, you'll get them > back in the next step. As root, type > freshclam -v > And that will download all the necessary signatures again. > </quote> > > At that point I thought all was well - until I had to reboot, when I found > that it hung with a message (from memory) 'self-checking 1800'. Using > Interactive boot I discovered that it came from clamd. > > I'm guessing that daily.cld main.cld and mirrors.dat are being sought > somewhere other than /var/clamav. Maybe a symlink is required? If someone > with a working clamd could advise me I'd be most grateful. For now I have > had to chkconfig clamd off. > > Anne Does the /var/clamav dir still exist ? It is in the clamd rpm. mirrors.dat, daily.cld and main.cld are in /var/clamav It seems easiest to me to reinstall clamd and clamav. Regards, -- Paul Schoonderwoerd