Hi there, On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 Allen, Geoff wrote:
> > Hongwei Li wrote: > > One question: I could not find config file for clamav-milter. > > [snip] > > Should there be a config file for clamav-milter? If yes, where is it? > > If no, how to configure it? > > As a new user of ClamAV, this also confused me! > > It uses clamd.conf. I couldn't find this documented anywhere. The man > page simply refers to "the config file" but never says what file is used > as the default. I don't know what man page you're looking at, but the one I'm looking at doesn't use that expression anywhere, and indeed it does tell you about clamd.conf. You do need to learn how to use man pages. Agreed, they tend to brevity. Even terseness. After installing ClamAV, the man pages are also installed. For example to see the man pages for clamd or clamav-milter, type man clamd or man clamav-milter If you look near the bottom you'll see a 'see also' section, that's where it generally tells you what else you might need to read. They are man pages too. (All man pages follow pretty much the same format, the standard has been fairly well developed over the past 35 years... :) In general man pages have the information that you need, but you have to read carefully. Some man pages are better than others of course, but the ClamAV pages are pretty good. At the bottom of the clamd man page you'll see that the first item in the 'see also' list is clamd.conf(5). In the clamav-milter page it's (coincidentally) the 5th item in the list. The '5' in parentheses after clamd.conf tells you what section of the manual the man page is stored. You can omit it under certain (most) circumstances but you can type man 5 clamd.conf to make sure you have the right page. Look at the title at the top of the man page, you'll see the section number there, too. Try typing man man for more information about man. Learn about it. It's a great tool. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
