>> I tried to follow as many instructions from various sources before I >> made this posting however my lack of knowledge was not improved as I >> found the freshclam.conf(5) manual impossible to understand. This >> file is not written for a new person. >> >> I removed earlier versions of clam that were installed as a result >> of a default install on Mandriva 2007. I did this as I was always >>upgrading clam and Klam to the same version. I was not able to get to >>the bottom of why the updates and upgrades were not staying.
>What do you mean by "not staying"? >Anyway, is there any reason you want / need to install ClamAV for a >single user only? If you want to update ClamAV, I'd either install it >system wide from source, or by rebuilding a src.rpm with an updated >ClamAV release -- if just using the distro provided rpm is not an >option. Personally, I do prefer the src.rpm approach, since it > >magically gets a lot of things right without the need to do it myself. >Like a dedicated clamav user and stuff. >Mandriva provides a ClamAV 0.90.1 update. Why don't you just install >(update) that one, instead of removing the already existing system wide >ClamAV and trying to get your own build running for a single user? You >do have update sources configured, don't you? :) >Also, there is a freshclam init script, so you don't need to update the >virus signatures manually. >> I downloaded clamav-0.90.1.tar.gz and configured it etc using the >> instructions found in the tutorial on the web, as follows: >> ./configure --prefix=/home/stephanos/clamav --disable-clamav >> make; make install >Minor nitpicking: This should be 'make && make install'. >> I think I did this as a user but I am not sure. >> >> As far as I know this worked OK. At the command line I tested the >> scanner (as a user) with the command >> clamscan /home/stephanos/ >> It scanned and reminded me I was seven days out of date. So I set >>about updating it with the freshclam command. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ ./freshclam >> ERROR: Please edit the example config file >> /home/stephanos/clamav/etc/freshclam.conf. >> ERROR: Please edit the example config file >> /home/stephanos/clamav/etc/clamd.conf. >> ERROR: Can't parse the config file >>/home/stephanos/clamav/etc/clamd.conf >> >> So I tried as root: >Please read the error messages carefully. They do not tell you to >try as root. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ su >> Password: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./freshclam >> ERROR: Please edit the example config file >> /home/stephanos/clamav/etc/freshclam.conf. >> ERROR: Please edit the example config file >> /home/stephanos/clamav/etc/clamd.conf. >> ERROR: Can't parse the config file >> home/stephanos/clamav/etc/clamd.conf >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# >> Same problem that I had to fiddle with config files. >Yup, exactly. Edit the config files... >> Here is some other information that might be relevant: >> 1) The permissions of file: >> /home/stephanos/clamav/etc/freshclam.conf are: >> owner-stephanos, rw-r--r--. >> 2) As root, using Kate, I made file /var/log/freshclam.log as it was >> not present. The permissions of this file are: owner-root, >> rw-r--r--. >> 3) Is this log file in the right place as there is a directory >> /var/log/clamav >> 4) >> I did try to read the freshclam.conf(5) manual before editing this >> file. But I did not understand a word of it sorry, >> >> After these small changes to freshclam.conf I tried to update >> again but got the same messages. >Do read the config files. They contain pretty good comments about the >various settings. >> Any help appreciated >> >> Stephen >> >> <Contents of /home/stephanos/clamav/etc/freshclam.conf after I have >> edited it> >> ## >> ## Example config file for freshclam >> ## Please read the freshclam.conf(5) manual before editing this file. >> ## >> # Comment or remove the line below. >> Example >Sic! Let's start here... >> # Path to the database directory. >> # WARNING: It must match clamd.conf's directive! >> # Default: hardcoded (depends on installation options) >> DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav >Since you installed ClamAV inside your $HOME and it is running as the >calling user (I guess, I never disabled clamav user/group testing), you >most likely will have to adjust all these paths, since you won't be >able to use the system ones. >[ lots of conf file dump snipped ] >guenther Dear guenther Thanks for your lengthy reply I appreciate that you went to a lot of effort to explain things to me. I am sorry to say I understood very little of it. However, I took the hint and worked on and learnt a bit. I worked on the aspect of permission to enter the database directory and permission to read and write to the log file. As a user I can scan but I must be root to update the database. I need to know if this limitation to updating the database is normal and OK for when I install the “clamtk-2.31-1.centos.noarch.rpm” gui front end (I think I have used the right terminology). However I have a new situation. During the database update I am told to get the latest version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./freshclam ClamAV update process started at Mon Apr 23 19:48:41 2007 SECURITY WARNING: NO SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL SIGNATURES See the FAQ at http://www.clamav.net/support/faq for an explanation. WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.90.1 Recommended version: 0.90.2 DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq main.cvd is up to date (version: 43, sigs: 104500, f-level: 14, builder: sven) daily.inc is up to date (version: 3151, sigs: 6896, f-level: 15, builder: ccordes) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]#” I go to the website http://www.clamav.net/support/faq and it is explained that I need the latest version of the scanner to detect the latest virus'. To do this I am presented with a question about having installed from Packages or Sources. I do not know the answer to this nor have I managed to find this out. I have no objections to scrapping everything I have done so far in favour of an easier installation method, if there is one. Any further help appreciated Stephen Here is a summery of the permission of the relevant file/directories Path/File/Direc' User Grp User Group Other -------------------------------------------------------------------- /var/log/freshclam.log Root Admin RW- R-- RW- /var/lib/clamav/ clamav clamav RW- RW- R-- /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf Root Root RW- R-- R-- /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf Root Root RW- R-- R-- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
