Re: setting up clamav-freshclam

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

Steven Jones wrote:

> Are you setting clamav up by hand or is it a deb packaged?
>
> I have it running fine using the deb stuff.
dpkg:

[11:16:05] bash3 $ dpkg --list 'clamav*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
iU clamav 0.81-2 antivirus scanner for Unix
ii clamav-base 0.81-2 base package for clamav, an anti-virus utili
iU clamav-daemon 0.81-2 antivirus scanner daemon
un clamav-data <none> (no description available)
ii clamav-docs 0.81-2 documentation package for clamav, an anti-vi
iF clamav-freshcl 0.81-2 downloads clamav virus databases from the In
iU clamav-getfile 0.3-5 Update script for clamav
iU clamav-milter 0.81-2 antivirus scanner for sendmail
ii clamav-testfil 0.81-2 use these files to test that your Antivirus


> Edit sources.list and add,
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~sgran/debian woody main
>
> Remove the existing clamav and install the deb packages from the above.
I got mine from the regular pool, and I'm running 'sarge'. Unless you 
are offering a newer version I don't see the advantage.

> I would suggest you read this page (the adding clamav bit down the
> bottom),
>
> http://www.thing.dyndns.org/debian/sendmaildeb.ht
OK. But I'm not running sendmail and I don't get to that point in any case.

> Permissions <EDITED/>
> ===========
>
> drwxr-xr-x    2 clamav   clamav       4096 Feb  6 06:25 clamav
> -rw-r-----    1 root     adm          2493 Feb  9 20:18 daemon.log
> 8><-----
>
> katrina:/var/log/clamav# ls -l
> total 188
> -rw-r-----    1 clamav   adm          3640 Feb 10 14:30 clamav.log
> -rw-r-----    1 clamav   adm         20286 Feb 10 14:25 freshclam.log
> 8><----
>
> > > Have you tried it with 777 (rwxrwxrwx) permissions?  I'm guessing the
[11:12:03] bash3 $ uname -r
2.4.27-2-k7

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 0 Feb 1 01:33 btmp
-rwxrwxr-- 1 root adm 1536 Jan 31 18:50 btmp.1
drwxrwxrwx 2 clamav adm 4096 Feb 9 16:38 clamav <===========
drwxrwxr-T 2 lp lpadmin 4096 Feb 10 11:13 cups
-rwxrwxr-- 1 root adm 0 Aug 13 13:21 cygserver.log

[11:12:58] bash3 $ ls -lF clam*
total 0
-rw-r----- 1 clamav adm 0 Feb 9 20:30 freshclam.log


> > > logfile
> > > isn't owned by the user or group of ClamAV.
> > >
> > > -Ben
> > Makes perfectly good sense.  Sad to say, it doesn't help.
> > the log is owned by clamav:adm and set 0777, the parent dir
> > "/var/log/clamav" is set 1777.
> > (Also tried at 0777).
>
> not sure, but is it possible that you don't have a user or group or both
>
> called clamav?  Maybe it didn't get purged and reconfigured properly. 
> Should be in /etc/passwd and /etc/group?

[11:14:03] bash3 $ grep "clam" /etc/passwd
clamav:x:125:125::/var/lib/clamav:/bin/false
[11:15:46] bash3 $ grep "clam" /etc/group
adm:x:1000:superbiskit,logcheck,Debian-console-log,postgres,snort,statd,clamav
clamav:x:125:

[11:31:10] bash3 $ ls -lF /var/lib/clamav
total 1660
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73877 Feb 9 16:40 daily.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1613377 Feb 9 16:40 main.cvd



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