I did this to no avail. The freshclam.conf on the client:
DO I need to comment out any of the DNSDatabaseInfo lines? Or are there any other lines that need my specific site info in them? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Spence Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:30 AM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Has anyone set up a local virus definitions server? Fulda, Paul (Mission Systems) wrote: > I'm running ClamAV on a lot of clients on my local network. Can I > mirror the database locally so that each client doesn't have to > download it from your servers? > > Sure, install a proxy server and then configure your freshclam clients > to use it (watch for the HTTPProxyServer parameter in man > freshclam.conf). Alternatively, you can configure a local webserver on > one of your machines (say machine1.mylan) and let freshclam download > the *.cvd files from http://database.clamav.net to the webserver's > DocumentRoot. Finally, change freshclam.conf on your clients so that > it > reads: > DatabaseMirror machine1.mylan > First the database will be downloaded to the local webserver and then > the other clients on the network will update their copy of the > database from it. > > > I did read this but I can not seem to get it to work. We do have a > web server running on our network. It is an apache server. Do I just > stick the .cvd files in the /var/www/html directory (/var/www/html is > our root dir)? What should the freshclam.conf file look like? > > > Thanks! > Since /var/www/html is your DocumentRoot you should just be able to dump the database files there. The freshclam.conf on your server would have "DatabaseDirectory /var/www/html" in it and the freshclam.conf on your clients would have "DatabaseMirror yourwebserver.yourdomain.com" Steve _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
