On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Randal, Phil wrote:

>Pat Masterson wrote:
>
>> I just installed clamav-0.88.2 on a solaris 9 system. when running
>> freshclam I get this:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [170]: /usr/local/bin/freshclam --datadir=/home/clamav -v
>> Current working dir is /home/clamav
>> Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
>> ERROR: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net
>> WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.

 This turned out to be a permission problem on /etc/resolv.conf. It was
600. Even though I ran freshclam as root, it changed to UID clamav to
lookup current.cvd.clamav.net and it failed because it couldn't read
/etc/resolv.conf. Once I changed it to 644 it worked fine.

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