CLAMAV NOT RUNNING? Possible Solution
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Tue Apr 18 22:12:58 UTC 2006
Hi Bill;
Your email addresses a day of frustration.
On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 16:44 -0500, Bill Polhemus wrote:
> A few people including myself over the past few weeks asked about problems
> with ClamAV, which appeared to "break" after upgrading to FC5.
>
> The current components for ClamAV 0.88.1 appear to be:
>
> clamav-0.88.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm
> clamav-data-0.88.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm (Contains main.cvd and daily.cvd as of
> date)
> clamav-devel-0.88.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm
> clamav-lib-0.88.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm
> clamav-milter-0.88.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm (Contains clmilter)
> clamav-server-0.88.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm
> clamav-update-0.88.1-1.fc5.i386.rpm (Contains FreshClam)
I have everything except clamav-milter -- shouldn't need it.
FreshClam works
clamscan /FILE works
> service clamav restart
]# service clamav restart returns clamav: unrecognized service
]# service clamd restart returns clamd: unrecognized service
> and my ClamAV installation was back in action!
and mine wasn't
>
> Hope this is helpful to someone. It is frustrating not to be able to find
> an answer to a nagging problem like this--and gratifying when you come up
> with the answer. I wanted to share my success.
I am glad that you did. clamscan on /home (FC5) has found several virii
in my restored /home from FC4.
The documentation is terrible. For a program so crucial, I need help.
Regards Bill
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