I have installed Qmail with Clamav (on Slackware Linux 12.1) from some scripts I'd written and used the same script multiple times - point is, nothing changes as to how I build everything. Last night I did the Qmail toaster routine and Clamav (it's the next to most recent release) seemed to update fine. When my server rebooted, however, there was an error that said something like this: "Error: cannot verify integrity of main.cvd". And, clamav would not start. So, I forcibly removed every directory and binary file related to Clamav, plus did a make clean in the Clamav directory, and reinstalled Clamav. It did the same thing. I Googled the thing and found almost zero references to anything like this... Thankfully I found a "cached" page (almost missed that one!) that said to go the database directory and do the following: mv main.cvd main.cvd.bak. Then, it said, run an update and - it said - everything would work. It did! But what would cause this and why would the aforementioned fix work when removing everything and reinstalling failed???
I've used Clamav for years and never seen anything like this, too. It just seems so counter intuitive that rebuilding it, completely, would not work but renaming a file did the trick. Thanks for any input... Guy Merritt Flint, MI _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
