Buono Serra, Andrea! One of the other ways clamav is installed is by downloading the source and compiling it. As clamav compiles it builds and installs the various .conf files. However if you install clamav via yum or rpm chances are the .conf files will not be installed but will have to be constructed.
As I stated before you can cross-check the facts to determine whether .conf files have been installed for you by running either: $whereis fleshclam.conf or anything else you are searching for. Now this is the tricky point. The .conf files are installed with the most useful commands commented out and are therefore unavailable for execution. You must un-comment the commands within the .conf files to have them executed; this is done by removing the # symbol before each line. Be sure to read the clamav manual and other documentation regarding activating various command functions. Lastly, keep in mind that the higher the version number you are using of clamav (or anything else) that signifies the most current version of that program. Remember that although it's always nice to have the latest version of something, it is also quite possible that the latest version of a particular program or package will conflict with the standard or official release packages of the version of Linux which you happen to have installed. The safe way around this challenge as a user of that official Linux release is to only do installations using yum where yum.conf points to the official release and update packages for that Linux variant, and you choose to refrain from using rpm until you become clearer or have better understanding regarding what packages the version of Linux you use are constructed and built. Should you in your research discover that you installed a package using rpm which you should not have used, then you can extract or remove that package by doing (for example): # rpm -e clamav-0.92-33.fc8.i386.rpm As an example suppose the immediately above rpm package is what I want removed. After this removal is completed, I'll need to make sure that the accepted version of clamav for the version of Linux I'm using is properly installed. This can mean reinstalling the correct package by using yum, again I repeat make sure that yum.conf is pointing or directed to the right rpm packages for the release of the version of Linux you are using. All the best... On 1/23/08, Andrea Bencini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > clamav-0.92-6.fc8.i386.rpm and clamav-0.91.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm packages > haven't clamd.conf and freshclam.conf files. > clamav-0.92-33.fc8.i386.rpm package has clamd.conf and freshclam.conffiles. > Why are there these differences? > > Thanks > Andrea > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
