HOW TO install clamd on Fedora 11 for use by mimedefang. This is for the archive for when someone wants to install clamd on a Fedora 11 box and have it work with mimedefang. I could not find instructions anywhere so maybe I'm the only person in the world that wanted to do this particular thing. Thanks to everyone who provided input. I used your inputs, plus a bunch of research, plus a bunch of trial and error. Please feel free to reply with corrections. One thing I would like to add to this list is a way to verify clamd is still checking emails. Once I turn off LogClean (I have to or the logs will explode), everything goes silent. clamdtop is useless for this purpose, and so is the clamd STATS command. I sure wish I could access stats like sendmail mailstats whereby it shows x number of files have been checked. I'd appreciate any input on this :)
1) Don't try yum. This is the first time the yum system has let me down. There are 18 different clam related packages. I dove into this and couldn't get it to work. 2) Go to http://www.clamav.net/download/sources and scroll down to the latest stable relaese. It was 0.95.3 for me. Download it. 3) tar -zxvf clamav-0.95.3.tar.gz 4) useradd clamav 5) cd clamav-0.95.3 6) ./configure 7) make 8) make check (optional) 9) make install 10) cd /usr/local/etc/ 11) vi freshclam.conf 12) comment out the Example line 13) set DatabaseMirror db.us.clamav.net (or whatever your country) 14) run freshclam to update 15) yum install socat 16) put this in a daily script to update: /usr/local/bin/freshclam echo RELOAD | socat - /tmp/clamd.socket 17) cd /usr/local/etc 18) vi clamd.conf I made the following changes: #Example LogFile /var/log/clamd.log LogTime yes LogClean yes LogVerbose yes Note: with LogClean set to yes, you will be able to see if clamd is doing anything. Don't leave it like that or the log will get too big. 19) Run clamd. This will start the daemon. pgrep clamd to verify. Now you can cd to any directory and run clamdscan and it will scan the directory and put results in the log. Or, you can run clamscan to get all the results at the console. clamscan does the same thing as clamd only it's not a daemon so it loads all the signatures every time you run it so it's slower. mimedefang doesn't use it but it comes with the package. 20) use clamdtop to get a nifty status window. 21) configure clamd to start on boot by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.local and adding: /usr/local/sbin/clamd 22) configure mimedefang to use clamd by editing /usr/bin/mimedefang.pl old: $Features{'Virus:CLAMD'} = ('/bin/false' ne '/bin/false' ? '/bin/false' : 0); new: $Features{'Virus:CLAMD'} = ('/usr/local/sbin/clamd' ne '/bin/false' ? '/usr/local/sbin/clamd' : 1); old: #$ClamdSock = "/var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock"; new: $ClamdSock = "/tmp/clamd.socket"; 23) restart mimedefang (I use service mimedefang reread) You should see clamd.log start to scroll as it checks emails. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
