Török Edwin wrote:
> On 2009-03-04 23:18, Bill Landry wrote:
>> Török Edwin wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Was your clamd heavily loaded at that time?
>>> How long does this take:
>>> $ time clamscan /dev/null
>>>     
>> Sorry to break in here, but I wanted to check how long my server would
>> take to load the signature databases with v0.95rc1.  However, this is
>> new to me:
>>
>> clamscan /dev/null
>> LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
>> LibClamAV Warning: ***  The virus database is older than 7 days!  ***
>> LibClamAV Warning: ***   Please update it as soon as possible.    ***
>> LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
>>
>> I've never had clamscan report this before now.  This works fine:
>>
>> clamscan -d /var/lib/clamav /dev/null
>>
>> How do I get clamscan to look for the database files by default in
>> /var/lib/clamav instead of /usr/local/share/clamav (found this with strace)?
>>
>> I tried rebuilding clamav using:
>>
>> ./configure --datadir=/var/lib/clamav/
>>
>> But to no avail.  Is there a different configure option I should be using?
>>   
> 
> You should use this:
>   --with-dbdir=path       path to virus database directory

Ah, I was looking in the (./configure --help) "Fine tuning of the
installation directories:" section.  Shouldn't this configure switch
also be in this section?

And with all previous versions of ClamAV, I've never had to use this
configure switch - why now?

Anyway, this worked.  Thanks!

Bill
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