Earlier this month I reported a problem in that ClamTK couldn't virus-scan a file. This was cured by following the dev's instructions <quote> If you open up a terminal window and type "ls /var/clamav" (without quotes of course), I'm betting you'll see a variety of files and/or directories in there. If you're up for it, as root type 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
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. > > AnneDoes 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
Anne Wilson wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:43:06 +0100:> I'm guessing that daily.cld main.cld and mirrors.dat are being sought > somewhere other than /var/clamav.did you test if clamscan works? Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com