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Old 04-01-2007, 05:01 PM   #1
gymnart
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clamtk update signatures


Is there a command for clamtk's virus signatures to be updated from the command line?
I'm getting tired of having to login as root in order to update the signatures.
I would like to be able to just do: su root and then tell clamtk to update it's signatures.
 
Old 04-01-2007, 05:12 PM   #2
Carr McCormack
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OK. Im a relative newbie and am running SUSE 10.2 and ClamAV. To update the signatures I open a terminal, then su and password. After that I change to the root (/) directory and type freshclam

Thats what works here...hope it helps....

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Old 04-01-2007, 05:32 PM   #3
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Thank you!

This time when I started clamtk, it did not complain about the signatures being out of date.
 
Old 04-01-2007, 06:13 PM   #4
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excellent glad to be of help.

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