Ollie Brady wrote:
Hi I am getting the below error when trying to run Clamd. The .conf files
are where they are supposed to be.
How do you know this? By that I mean how do you know where they are
supposed to be?
Does anyone know what could be causing
this?
$ clamd
ERROR: Please edit the example config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf.
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf
wwwdev1:/usr/local/sbin>
Yes - the config files in a fresh installation are not quite ready to
use. In fact they have the word "Example" in there on a line by itself
which must be commented out with a hash ("#"). If this is not done then
the software will refuse to start. This is done for your safety. It is
hardly likely this is the only change you need to make.
There are many options in that file that you need to examine. The
defaults may not be suitable for your installation. You need to look at
each option and study them in the documentation to see what applies to
you and what you need to change. If you don't understand an option then
you are not ready to turn it on.
dp
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