John Gallagher wrote: > I have the same issue, I can NOT run clamscan with out the -d option > and giving the directory of the data base.
The issue you are having is due to changing the location of the database dir from that which clam was compiled with. > clamscan -l scan.txt -r /tmp/clamav-0.80 -d /var/lib/clamav/ > > Shortly after installing the application I did the test and it worked > perfectly. For what ever reason it looks like it has some variable > inserted in front of the true path (like it thinks it is in a chroot > jail). I would have to test but I think it stopped after I edited > /etc/clamd.conf and/etc/freshclam.conf files and entered the following > line: > > DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav > > I know the application is working and so is freshclam: Freshclam and clamd both find the database path from their respective config files. Clamscan relies upon the compiled database path. Matt ++++++++++++++++++ Thanks! I was following a howto doc which told me to place the database in /var/lib/clamav/ and then change the conf files. I suspect others have done it exactly the same way. I made the following changes and it fixed the problem: locate cvd |grep clam /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd /var/lib/clamav/daily.cvd /usr/local/share/clamav/main.cvd /usr/local/share/clamav/daily.cvd #cd /usr/local/share #mv clamav clamav.old # ln -s /var/lib/clamav/ clamav #chown clamav:clamav clamav # clamscan -r /tmp /tmp/clamd.log: OK /tmp/scan.txt: OK /tmp/kde-jgallagh/ksycocastamp: OK /tmp/kde-jgallagh/ksycoca: OK /tmp/kde-root/ksycocastamp: OK /tmp/kde-root/ksycoca: OK /tmp/mcop-jgallagh/secret-cookie: OK /tmp/ksocket-root/KSMserver__0: OK /tmp/mcop-root/secret-cookie: OK /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_MidiManager: OK /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_SoundServerV2: OK /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_SoundServer: OK /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_SimpleSoundServer: OK /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_PlayObjectFactory: OK /tmp/mcop-root/Arts_AudioManager: OK /tmp/.X0-lock: OK [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Known viruses: 27923 Scanned directories: 22 Scanned files: 18 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 1.06 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 1.247 sec (0 m 1 s) # _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
