On 4/18/10, Jim Preston <jimli...@commspeed.net> wrote:
>
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>
>> On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:14 AM, neidorff wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thanks. That did help. Now I'm getting a problem starting the daemon.
>>> The
>>> error that I am getting is:
>>>
>>> [r...@neidorff ~]# /etc/init.d/clamd start
>>> Starting Clam AV daemon: ERROR: Missing argument for option at line 33
>>> ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf
>>> [FAILED]
>>> I've checked the clamd.conf file. It looks fine.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The problem isn't in your /etc/init.d/clamd startup script, although that
>> seems to believe clamd.conf should be under /etc rather than /usr/local/etc
>> (and they should agree). Instead do something like:
>>
>> emacs +33 /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf
>>
>> ...to check on the specific line.
>>
>> My guess is that it is something like "LogTime" which should be "LogTime
>> yes" nowadays.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>
> SOLVED!!!
Many thanks for all the help. I fixed the path issues. Also, I found the
new syntax for clamd.conf in the man page, corrected the file, removed some
deprecated stuff, replaced the old version of freshclam (which didn't get
upgraded with the install of 0.96) and now the system is working happily.
Mark (after 3 days without the server working, I am very releived!!!)
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