The /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by the freshclam daemon. It should already be updating your virus database.
Can you please post the contents of that file here? Best regards, José Juan Montes > I did a "sudo freshclam" with the user being generated during install > and ended up with > > ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process > ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = > /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log). > the user root does NOT exist on the standard ebox-ISO-install. > > > Best regards, > > Klaus > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Von:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *Im Auftrag von *Jose > Juan Montes > *Gesendet:* Montag, 17. August 2009 17:58 > *An:* eBox users > *Betreff:* Re: [Ebox-user] Update in the Antivirus Database > > >>> same reading on my side :-( As a result I´ßve deactivated the feature >>> (old >>> virus-patters won´t help a lot). >>> >> I have the same issue as well. I think clamav signatures can be >> manually updated using freshclam tool. I'll see if I can look into >> this tomorrow. >> > > "frehsclam" is the tool used to automatically update ClamAV. You > can simply type "freshclam" as root and the database should be > updated > (otherwise you may be missing the clamav-freshclam package). > > The "clamav-freshclam" package also contains an init.d script that > runs clamav-freshclam as a daemon, so you shouldn't need to worry > about updating the virus database manually. You can find its log > at /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log. Have a look and check if it's > running correctly. > > Now, you'll need to sometimes update the ClamAV package itself > (you will be warned about this by freshclam). Ubuntu offers > package upgrades often and I guess you can manually download newer > versions. eBox may take care of the automated upgrade if you use > the Software Management module. > > In any case, ClamAV FAQ (http://www.clamav.net/support/faq) states > that you should upgrade whenever you see the following message: > "WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!". However, I think > that this is really only necessary when a new level of > functionality is required (and in this case, ClamAV shows > /"/WARNING: Current functionality level = 1, required = 2//"), but > I may be wrong about this. > > I hope it helps. Best regards. > > -- > > José Juan Montes > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ebox-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user -- José Juan Montes Área de Sistemas - Aitire C./ Príncipe Nº 34, Principal, Oficina 3 36201 Vigo, Pontevedra Teléfono: +34 986 163 050 www.aitire.es
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