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 OK, i am trying to do this with clamav 88.2. The problem i am having is clamav server does not have apache (or any web server running on it). The clamav server is OES-Linux server (novell distro based on SLES 9). I also have another OES-Linux server that is running a web server. So, when i change the freshclam.conf on the clamav server "DatabaseDirectory" to http://dnsaddress.here/folder (address of the other oes-linux server that is running apache2) and then try to run "freshclam" on the clamav server, i get this error: "can't change dir to http://dnsaddress.here/folder";. Is this way even possible or must it be a directory entry (like /srv/www/htdocs)? If it has to be in the form of /srv/www/htdocs, can it be a smb form (like smb://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to cvd's)? Any help is appreciated. Chris
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