Kurt Jensen wrote on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:51 AM: > > Hi, > > I am an Ubuntu newbie compiling for the first time. I have > sucessfully > compiled clamav and run the program from the shell. However, my virus > definitions are out-of-date and when I execute freshclam I > receive this > error message: > > Need to edit config file /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf > /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf > > Further, the clamav documention states that I should review > the document > clamd.conf(5) for the purpose of configuration. > > I have read this document on-line. I do not understand what > I am looking at > or what to do. > If you can help, please state explicit and concrete steps > that I should > perform . . .
You have to carefully read and understand each and every line of the config files (clamd.conf and freshclam.conf). Make sure you delete or comment out the "Example" line. Thomas _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
