Hi all,

Is anyone familiar with updating avamisd-new virus protection? If clamAV were separate I would know how to do this but I'm pretty clueless at the moment.

******************BEGIN EMAIL*******************************
Just for reference I've included the daily email from "run-parts /etc/cron.daily"

/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:

Shutting down amavisd: Daemon [1688] terminated by SIGTERM
[ OK ]
amavisd stopped
Starting amavisd: [ OK ]

Stopping clamd.amavisd: [ OK ]
Starting clamd.amavisd: LibClamAV Warning:
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LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days. ***
LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it IMMEDIATELY! ***
LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
[ OK ]

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Thanks!

The warning above regards the virus definitions database. To get the latest, just run You might need to adjust freshclam.conf beforehand if you've never run freshclam in the past. In the future, you can run freshclam from a cron job or as a daemon to keep the definitions up-to-date. Regarding your other comments, when you need to do it, it should be possible to upgrade each of amavis' components (clamav, spamassassin) separately. I don't use Fedora, but I don't believe they all come packaged together in a single RPM.

I can definitely try that command. I've used clamAV separate from a package like avamisd-new so i'm somewhat familiar with the /etc/freshclam.conf file.

Although this suggestion is good enough does anyone with experience in Fedora Core and avamisd-new have any suggestions to add?

amavisd-new can invoke ClamAV to scan email attachments by executing clamscan. It is ClamAV that has to be updated using as said already, through freshclam. In amavisd-new, if you haven't done yet:

/etc/amavisd.conf

['ClamAV-clamd',
\&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", "/tmp/clamd"],
qr/\bOK$/, qr/\bFOUND$/,
qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/ ],

It is just uncommenting these lines and then reload amavisd-new.

# /usr/sbin-path/../amavisd -u amavisd-user reload

In cron you need to add:

06 08 * * * /usr/bin-path/../freshclam --quiet