Colin A. Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Maul Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:28 PM > > > If freshclam insists on saying they > > are up to date, i would try deleting them totally and running freshclam > > again. Maybe that will clear up the problem. > > Per Tomasz, I first checked the number of signatures reported by freshclam > and it was reporting the correct number. So Per Jim, I deleted both main.cvd > and daily.cvd from /var/lib/clamav and ran freshclam again. It downloaded > them again as expected. But grepping for SomeFool in the sig list still > didn't give me SomeFool.P. So I searched my system for the CVD files and > found a SECOND COPY of them in /usr/local/share/clamav. I checked my > /etc/clamav.conf file and it says, as I think it should: > > DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav > > So for kicks, I copied the CVD files from /var/lib/clamav over top of the > ones in /usr/local/share/clamav. That worked! And now when I grep the sig > list for SomeFool I _DO_ get .P. So the question is this: if my clamav.conf > says to use /var/lib/clamav, and freshclam is downloading the files to > there, then why does clamscan use the files in /usr/local/share/clamav? > > Thanks for your help and patience thus far! > > cheers, > Colin > > Colin A. Bartlett > Kinetic Web Solutions > www.kineticweb.biz > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Clamav-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
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