Hi, I'm trying to install clamav into my linux system. I downloaded the tar files compiled them with no trouble. I read the docs to setup the config files. "freshclamav" runs fine, it does updates the databases. But when I try to run "clamd" I keep getting the following error:
LibClamAV debug: Setting /mnt/disk/clamav/tmp as global temporary directory LibClamAV debug: Loading databases from /usr/local/clamav/db LibClamAV debug: Loading / LibClamAV debug: cl_loaddb: unknown extension - assuming old database format LibClamAV debug: Initializing main node LibClamAV debug: Initializing trie LibClamAV debug: Initializing BM tables LibClamAV debug: in cli_bm_init() LibClamAV debug: BM: Number of indexes = 63744 LibClamAV Error: Empty database file LibClamAV Error: Can't load /: Malformed database LibClamAV debug: cl_loaddbdir(): error loading database / ERROR: Malformed database I double check the databases location and names, everything looks just fine. Permissions also seem to be fine. It looks like for some reason, LibClamAV is not getting any filename to open. Or is trying to open a files that does not exists or that some file other than the databases. Any help is very much wellcome ... Thanks in advance, Paramahansa My config files are: ============================= /etc/clamd.conf ============================= # Uncomment this option to enable logging. # LogFile must be writable for the user running daemon. # A full path is required. # Default: disabled LogFile /mnt/disk/clamav/log/clamd.log # By default the log file is locked for writing - the lock protects against # running clamd multiple times (if want to run another clamd, please # copy the configuration file, change the LogFile variable, and run # the daemon with --config-file option). # This option disables log file locking. # Default: disabled #LogFileUnlock # Maximal size of the log file. # Value of 0 disables the limit. # You may use 'M' or 'm' for megabytes (1M = 1m = 1048576 bytes) # and 'K' or 'k' for kilobytes (1K = 1k = 1024 bytes). To specify the size # in bytes just don't use modifiers. # Default: 1M #LogFileMaxSize 2M # Log time with each message. # Default: disabled #LogTime # Also log clean files. Useful in debugging but drastically increases the # log size. # Default: disabled #LogClean # Use system logger (can work together with LogFile). # Default: disabled #LogSyslog # Specify the type of syslog messages - please refer to 'man syslog' # for facility names. # Default: LOG_LOCAL6 #LogFacility LOG_MAIL # Enable verbose logging. # Default: disabled #LogVerbose # This option allows you to save a process identifier of the listening # daemon (main thread). # Default: disabled #PidFile /var/run/clamd.pid PidFile /mnt/disk/clamav/run/clamd.pid # Optional path to the global temporary directory. # Default: system specific (usually /tmp or /var/tmp). #TemporaryDirectory /var/tmp TemporaryDirectory /mnt/disk/clamav/tmp # Path to the database directory. # Default: hardcoded (depends on installation options) #DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav #DatabaseDirectory /mnt/disk/clamav/db DatabaseDirectory /usr/local/clamav/db # The daemon works in a local OR a network mode. Due to security reasons we # recommend the local mode. # Path to a local socket file the daemon will listen on. # Default: disabled LocalSocket /tmp/clamd # Remove stale socket after unclean shutdown. # Default: disabled FixStaleSocket # TCP port address. # Default: disabled #TCPSocket 3310 # TCP address. # By default we bind to INADDR_ANY, probably not wise. # Enable the following to provide some degree of protection # from the outside world. # Default: disabled #TCPAddr 127.0.0.1 # Maximum length the queue of pending connections may grow to. # Default: 15 #MaxConnectionQueueLength 30 # Clamd uses FTP-like protocol to receive data from remote clients. # If you are using clamav-milter to balance load between remote clamd daemons # on firewall servers you may need to tune the options below. # Close the connection when the data size limit is exceeded. # The value should match your MTA's limit for a maximal attachment size. # Default: 10M #StreamMaxLength 20M # Limit port range. # Default: 1024 #StreamMinPort 30000 # Default: 2048 #StreamMaxPort 32000 # Maximal number of threads running at the same time. # Default: 10 #MaxThreads 20 # Waiting for data from a client socket will timeout after this time (seconds). # Value of 0 disables the timeout. # Default: 120 #ReadTimeout 300 # Waiting for a new job will timeout after this time (seconds). # Default: 30 #IdleTimeout 60 # Maximal depth directories are scanned at. # Default: 15 #MaxDirectoryRecursion 20 # Follow directory symlinks. # Default: disabled #FollowDirectorySymlinks # Follow regular file symlinks. # Default: disabled #FollowFileSymlinks # Perform internal sanity check (database integrity and freshness). # Default: 1800 (30 min) #SelfCheck 600 # Execute a command when virus is found. In the command string %v will # be replaced by a virus name. # Default: disabled #VirusEvent /usr/local/bin/send_sms 123456789 "VIRUS ALERT: %v" # Run as a selected user (clamd must be started by root). # Default: disabled #User clamav User nobody # Initialize supplementary group access (clamd must be started by root). # Default: disabled #AllowSupplementaryGroups # Stop daemon when libclamav reports out of memory condition. #ExitOnOOM # Don't fork into background. # Default: disabled #Foreground # Enable debug messages in libclamav. # Default: disabled Debug # Do not remove temporary files (for debug purposes). # Default: disabled LeaveTemporaryFiles # By default clamd uses scan options recommended by libclamav. This option # disables recommended options and allows you to enable selected ones below. # DO NOT TOUCH IT unless you know what you are doing. # Default: disabled #DisableDefaultScanOptions ## ## Executable files ## # PE stands for Portable Executable - it's an executable file format used # in all 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. This option allows # ClamAV to perform a deeper analysis of executable files and it's also # required for decompression of popular executable packers such as UPX, FSG, # and Petite. # Default: enabled #ScanPE # With this option clamav will try to detect broken executables and mark # them as Broken.Executable # Default: disabled #DetectBrokenExecutables ## ## Documents ## # This option enables scanning of Microsoft Office document macros. # Default: enabled #ScanOLE2 ## ## Mail files ## # Enable internal e-mail scanner. # Default: enabled #ScanMail # If an email contains URLs ClamAV can download and scan them. # WARNING: This option may open your system to a DoS attack. # Never use it on loaded servers. # Default: disabled #MailFollowURLs ## ## HTML ## # Perform HTML normalisation and decryption of MS Script Encoder code. # Default: enabled #ScanHTML ## ## Archives ## # ClamAV can scan within archives and compressed files. # Default: enabled #ScanArchive # Due to license issues libclamav does not support RAR 3.0 archives (only the # old 2.0 format is supported). Because some users report stability problems # with unrarlib it's disabled by default and you must uncomment the directive # below to enable RAR 2.0 support. # Default: disabled #ScanRAR # The options below protect your system against Denial of Service attacks # using archive bombs. # Files in archives larger than this limit won't be scanned. # Value of 0 disables the limit. # Default: 10M #ArchiveMaxFileSize 15M # Nested archives are scanned recursively, e.g. if a Zip archive contains a RAR # file, all files within it will also be scanned. This options specifies how # deep the process should be continued. # Value of 0 disables the limit. # Default: 8 #ArchiveMaxRecursion 9 # Number of files to be scanned within an archive. # Value of 0 disables the limit. # Default: 1000 #ArchiveMaxFiles 1500 # If a file in an archive is compressed more than ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio # times it will be marked as a virus (Oversized.ArchiveType, e.g. Oversized.Zip) # Value of 0 disables the limit. # Default: 250 #ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio 300 # Use slower but memory efficient decompression algorithm. # only affects the bzip2 decompressor. # Default: disabled #ArchiveLimitMemoryUsage # Mark encrypted archives as viruses (Encrypted.Zip, Encrypted.RAR). # Default: disabled #ArchiveBlockEncrypted # Mark archives as viruses (e.g. RAR.ExceededFileSize, Zip.ExceededFilesLimit) # if ArchiveMaxFiles, ArchiveMaxFileSize, or ArchiveMaxRecursion limit is # reached. # Default: disabled #ArchiveBlockMax ## ## Clamuko settings ## WARNING: This is experimental software. It is very likely it will hang ## up your system!!! ## # Enable Clamuko. Dazuko (/dev/dazuko) must be configured and running. # Default: disabled #ClamukoScanOnAccess # Set access mask for Clamuko. # Default: disabled #ClamukoScanOnOpen #ClamukoScanOnClose #ClamukoScanOnExec # Set the include paths (all files in them will be scanned). You can have # multiple ClamukoIncludePath directives but each directory must be added # in a seperate line. # Default: disabled #ClamukoIncludePath /home #ClamukoIncludePath /students # Set the exclude paths. All subdirectories are also excluded. # Default: disabled #ClamukoExcludePath /home/guru # Don't scan files larger than ClamukoMaxFileSize # Value of 0 disables the limit. # Default: 5M #ClamukoMaxFileSize 10M ============================= /etc/freshclam.conf ============================= # Path to the database directory. # WARNING: It must match clamd.conf's directive! # Default: hardcoded (depends on installation options) #DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav DatabaseDirectory /usr/local/clamav/db # Path to the log file (make sure it has proper permissions) # Default: disabled #UpdateLogFile /var/log/freshclam.log UpdateLogFile /mnt/disk/clamav/log/freshclam.log # Enable verbose logging. # Default: disabled #LogVerbose # Use system logger (can work together with UpdateLogFile). # Default: disabled #LogSyslog # Specify the type of syslog messages - please refer to 'man syslog' # for facility names. # Default: LOG_LOCAL6 #LogFacility LOG_MAIL # This option allows you to save the process identifier of the daemon # Default: disabled #PidFile /var/run/freshclam.pid PidFile /mnt/disk/clamav/run/freshclam.pid # By default when started freshclam drops privileges and switches to the # "clamav" user. This directive allows you to change the database owner. # Default: clamav (may depend on installation options) #DatabaseOwner clamav DatabaseOwner nobody # Initialize supplementary group access (freshclam must be started by root). # Default: disabled #AllowSupplementaryGroups # Use DNS to verify virus database version. Freshclam uses DNS TXT records # to verify database and software versions. With this directive you can change # the database verification domain. # Default: enabled, pointing to current.cvd.clamav.net #DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net # Uncomment the following line and replace XY with your country # code. See http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm for the full list. # Default: There is no default, which results in an error when running freshclam DatabaseMirror db.il.clamav.net # database.clamav.net is a round-robin record which points to our most # reliable mirrors. It's used as a fall back in case db.XY.clamav.net is # not working. DO NOT TOUCH the following line unless you know what you # are doing. DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net # How many attempts to make before giving up. # Default: 3 (per mirror) #MaxAttempts 5 # Number of database checks per day. # Default: 12 (every two hours) #Checks 24 # Proxy settings # Default: disabled #HTTPProxyServer myproxy.com #HTTPProxyPort 1234 #HTTPProxyUsername myusername #HTTPProxyPassword mypass # Use aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd as client address for downloading databases. Useful for # multi-homed systems. # Default: Use OS'es default outgoing IP address. #LocalIPAddress aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd # Send the RELOAD command to clamd. # Default: disabled #NotifyClamd # By default it uses the hardcoded configuration file but you can force an # another one. #NotifyClamd /config/file/path #NotifyClamd /etc/clamd.conf # Run command after successful database update. # Default: disabled #OnUpdateExecute command # Run command when database update process fails. # Default: disabled #OnErrorExecute command # Run command when freshclam reports outdated version. # In the command string %v will be replaced by the new version number. # Default: disabled #OnOutdatedExecute command # Don't fork into background. # Default: disabled #Foreground # Enable debug messages in libclamav. # Default: disabled #Debug _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
