Re: clamav: freshclam configuration/parse problem

[Tobias Ulbricht <ulbricht@tkm.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:00:02PM +0100, Loic Le Loarer wrote:
> Le mercredi 14 mars 2007 à 16:59:14 +0100, Tobias Ulbricht a écrit:
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > My new configuration: freshclam.conf looks like this:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > Foreground false
> > <snip>
> > ScriptedUpdates yes
> > NotifyClamd true
> > DatabaseMirror db.local.clamav.net
> > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net
> > DatabaseMirror db.de.clamav.net
> > 
> > Now, if there is an update, I get an error (so far only via cron,
> > since I was not testing when there was really an update available):
> > 
> > WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't find or parse configuration file true
> 
> Change the "NotifyClamd true" line into:
> NotifyClamd /etc/clamav/clamd.conf
> 
> It seems the configuration file format has changed...

Hello Loic,

thanks a lot. Now I figured that there must be something wrong with
the postinst, or, at least, I should have been more careful in the
transition to the new file format.

As I've seen something like "upgrade_check" in the postinst, but I'm
not 100% sure, if this should have been fixed automatically during the
upgrade or not.

I just mailed to Stephen Gran, what I think is a bug, at least in a
fresh install. If he is not the one where the patch should go to, I
copy&paste for completeness to here:

--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-freshclam.postinst        2007-03-14 17:46:33.000000000 +0100
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-freshclam.postinst.bak    2007-03-14 17:45:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
     if [ -n "$NotifyClamd" ] ; then
       echo "NotifyClamd $NotifyClamd" >> $DEBCONFILE
     else
-      echo "NotifyClamd $notify" >> $DEBCONFILE
+      echo "NotifyClamd" >> $DEBCONFILE
     fi
   fi
   if [ "$runas" != "cron" ] || [ "$runas" != "manual" ]; then


Thanks Loic! Cheers, 
Tobias

> 
> Best regards.
> -- 
> Loïc
> 
> "heaven is not a place, it's a feeling"

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