On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 at 9:01:03 +0800, Daniel Suen wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the 0.80 version yesterday and compiled and run it on
> both a Linux machine and a Solaris 9 machine. The following problem is
> found on both platforms:-
>
> I have a virus file and I tried scanning it with clamscan, and it did not
> report that it is a virus/worm. So, I tried adding a "--database" tag, and
> this time, clamscan correctly identifies the virus. Then, I think the
> "DatabaseDirectory" tag might not have been picked up correctly. So, I edit
> "/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf". There, when I uncomment that line which points
> to "/var/lib/clamav" and do a "clamscan" again, it gives an error.
There must be some "side" problem. clamscan doesn't use clamd.conf.
> On Solaris 9:
>
> LibClamAV Error: cl_loaddbdir(): Can't open directory
> ERROR: Unable to open file or directory
>
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Known viruses: 0
> Scanned directories: 0
> Scanned files: 0
> [...]
>
> On Linux:
>
> LibClamAV Error: cl_loaddbdir(): Can't open directory ¨/lib/clamav
^
I can see some strange character here (like "umlaut" (2 dots at the
top). Haven't you typed some not plain ascii char when running configure
or editing the config file?
> ERROR: Unable to open file or directory
>
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Known viruses: 0
> Scanned directories: 0
> Scanned files: 0
> [...]
> Anyone knows how to fix it? Also, "clamscan -V" gives something like the
> following:
>
> ClamAV 0.80/375/Thu Jan 1 08:00:00 1970
>
> If that gives the time when the software was built, that is wrong. The
> symptom occurs on both Solaris 9 and Linux.
>
I don't know what causes this, but this is quite a rare symptom.
I'd suggest you run 'make uninstall', then make sure there are no clamav
related files left elsewhere (older installation?) and start from
scratch, doing _as little changes in relation to the INSTALL file, as
possible_.
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