--- [email protected] wrote:

>From: Scott Kitterman <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Unable to run freshclam on Debian Jessie
>Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:02:19 -0500
>
>What are you trying to accomplish?

I was trying to update the virus database and signatures.

>By default in Debian freshclam is run as a daemon and regularly updates the 
>virus signatures.  If you
>want to run it by hand for some reason, you'll need to stop the daemon first:

Thanks, I didn't know that.

>From your reply I infer that the error messages that popped up on my screen 
>were due to the fact that I had not disabled the freshclam daemon that was 
>already running in the background.



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