On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 11:15 -0500, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone.
I just installed clamav and clamav-db from the SuSE 9.3 DVD. I immediately did an on-line update and downloaded the security fix.
I now have clamav (v. 0.87.1-0.1) and clamav-db (v. 0.83.4).
I then went to www.clamav.net and noted that the latest stable version is listed as 0.87.1, so I am assuming (??) that I do have the latest version on my pooter.
In K-Mail I then clicked
and told K-Mail to use Clamav, and to send anything it detected to a folder I created. At this point I would appreciate guidance on the following....
1) Have I taken the necessary steps to install and activate clamav, or have I overlooked anything? Do I need to "turn it on" or is clamav now running?
/etc/init.d/clamd status will show if it is running.
2) How do I update the virus definitions in clamav-db? I did not see anything on the clamav.net website about updating the database, but maybe I overlooked what was right in my face?? :o)
3) What is "freshclam," and do I need to get that? If yes, where do I get it and what do I do with the file once I have it?
Freshclam is the program that does the database updates. I use the following in a shell script in /etc/cron.hourly: pc5:~ # cat /etc/cron.hourly/clamd-update #!/bin/sh cd /usr/bin ./freshclam | /bin/mail -s 'freshclam hourly report' root The cron job checks for updates hourly, there have been 2-3 updates in a row so hourly is a good check, updates the damon process with the updates and mails root the report: ClamAV update process started at Sun Jan 8 11:00:01 2006 main.cvd is up to date (version: 35, sigs: 41649, f-level: 6, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up to date (version: 1234, sigs: 455, f-level: 6, builder: diego) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998