On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 at 18:19:02 -0500, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
> 
> 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

Oh, second copy. Problems due to this occur again and again on the list
:-) .

> /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?

Maybe you compiled ClamAV with this path?

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