On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:23:29 +0100
DWH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a weird problem while trying to chroot clamd (0.65)
> It seems it is not using the new .cvd files. When I don't have
> viruses.db and viruses.db2 in the database directory, it says "ERROR:
> Database initialization error."
> 
> The main.cvd and daily.cvd are in place however.
> When i put the viruses.db and viruses.db2 in the directory, it seems
> to work fine. The problem now is that freshclam does not update
> viruses.db and viruses.db2.
> 
> When I compile clamd en libclamav in debug mode and set ForeGround in
> clamav.conf, clamd just hangs on 'reading main.cvd'.
> 
> Has anyone seen this problem aswell? It would somehow be nice to run
> clamd chrooted, from a security perspective, and have an up2date virus
> database.

You must create a /tmp directory in your chrooted environment. Without
it clamd will fail to load cvd databases and to scan archives.

Best regards,
Tomasz Kojm
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