Revisiting an earlier problem I thought I had solved.
FreeBSD server 4.7, running clamav 0.83. Used the FreeBSD port to install, added the proper lines to /etc/rc.d to enable it. Upon a server reboot, freshclam fails to update the database.
ClamAV update process started at Thu Mar 24 16:20:48 2005
ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host.
Giving up on database.clamav.net...
ERROR: Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in freshclam.conf is working.
ERROR: Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in freshclam.conf is working.
However, if I kill the freshclam process and as root do a sudo -u mailnull freshclam --daemon, then the update works both initally and after that without a problem. Only appears to be a problem after a fresh boot.
Still a *nix beginner, so perhaps I'm missing something here. Running freshclam from the command line with no arguments as root works and enables the updates to work after that.
Permissions are set to mailnull as owner on the database files and the config files, as well as the log files.
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