2010/4/16 Török Edwin <edwinto...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I just had a chat on #clamav with 2 people having problem with ClamAV 0.96
> on FreeBSD 6.2. (everything was OK on FreeBSD 6.3)
>
> The symptom is that clamscan/clamd never starts, just loops infinitely
> trying to load the DB, --debug shows:
> Libclamav debug: in cli_tgzload()
>
> The system was using zlib 1.2.3, and gzseek() looked broken (it always
> returned 0 for gzseek(0, SEEK_CUR), in fact it moved the file position to 0
> again).
>
> Solution was to use upstream zlib 1.2.3 instead of system one:
> $ wget http://www.zlib.net/fossils/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
> $ tar xzvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
> $ cd zlib-1.2.3
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr -s
> $ make
> # make install
>
> Does FreeBSD 6.2 patch zlib in any way that could cause this error?
>
>
Not to answer your question but those people should upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4,
at least. There is no good reason to get stuck at 6.2.
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