Jim,
That was it! Apparently in my freshclam.conf file, DatabaseDirectory was
commented out. I uncommented it and then ran freshclam again. Voila, all
works now.
Thanks!
---
Paul Webb
Network Systems Analyst
WebbEnabled Solutions, LLC.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Maul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Webb, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV says "ERROR: Database
initializationerror."
> Quoting "Webb, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I apologize if this has come up before in here. As far as I can
> > tell I don't have access to the list archive to look and not clutter
> > up the channel. I even (in order not to add to the list fodder) ran
> > several google searches to see if anyone else had brought this up. I
> > can't find anything that matches my problem.
> >
> > I'm installing ClamAV on my mail server for my (new) company's
> > use. That machine is running Mandrake 9.1 and the latest versions of
> > Postfix and SpamAssassin.
> >
> > I downloaded ClamAV and used the HTML documentation
> > (http://www.clamav.net/doc/0.72/html/) off the ClamAV website to do
> > my install. In other words, RTFM is *not* an appropriate response. I
> > did. I have. I'm still having issues.
> >
> > I made it through the entire Installation, Usage, and Problem
> > Solving sections of the documentation. However, when I attempted to
> > start clamd, I got the following:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# clamd
> > ERROR: Database initialization error.
> >
> > I checked my clamav.conf file, and my DatabaseDirectory directive
> > points to the /var/lib/clamav directory.
> > I checked /var/lib/clamav; it's empty.
> > I checked the permissions on /var/lib/clamav and they are as
follows:
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Jun 3 17:13 clamav/
> >
> > I initially thought that I needed to download a database to start
> > with, so I configured freshclam, set up my cron job to run it every
> > other hour, and ran it. It states that I'm up to date.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> Most likely freshclam is downloading the database to one location (NOT
> /var/lib/clamav/) and clamd is looking for the database in
/var/lib/clamav/
>
> I would check the freshclam.conf and see if the DatabaseDirectory
directive
> matches that in clamav.conf
>
> Jim
>
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