About ClamAV

shipon_97 · 04-02-2006, 05:56 AM

Friends ,

I am a newbie to install "Clamav" Antivirus . I have installed it in my Linux Enterprise 4 machine but i am littlebit confused about some matter. I have some questions :

1) What is the function of "freshclam.log"

and

2) Why "Clamd" is used ? and what is Daemon ?

Plz help....

dopehouse · 04-02-2006, 08:49 AM

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1) What is the function of "freshclam.log"

Freshclam is the virus-database updatetool. In freshclam.log you'll find the log of the update. It looks like this:

Code:

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Received signal: wake up
ClamAV update process started at Sun Apr  2 11:26:20 2006
main.cvd is up to date (version: 36, sigs: 44686, f-level: 7, builder: tkojm)
daily.cvd updated (version: 1366, sigs: 3564, f-level: 7, builder: arnaud)
Database updated (48250 signatures) from db.local.clamav.net (IP: 195.246.234.199)
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Received signal: wake up
ClamAV update process started at Sun Apr  2 12:26:24 2006
main.cvd is up to date (version: 36, sigs: 44686, f-level: 7, builder: tkojm)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 1366, sigs: 3564, f-level: 7, builder: arnaud)--------------------------------------

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2) Why "Clamd" is used ? and what is Daemon ?

Daemon stands for [b]d[/]isk and execution monitor. It runs in the background and checks files for virus on-access.

shipon_97 · 04-02-2006, 11:49 AM

Dear dopehouse ,

I have another question .
Is clamav.conf and clamd.conf is same ? i.e., When i have installed "ClamAV-0.70.tar.gz" then
I have found in "/usr/local/etc/calmav.conf" file but when i have installed "ClamAV-0.89.tar.gz"
then i found "clamd.conf" file in same directory . Is they are same file ?

thx....

dopehouse · 04-02-2006, 12:05 PM

This is from the ChangeLog:

Code:

Sun Sep 19 02:06:06 CEST 2004 (tk)
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  * etc/clamav.conf: rename clamd.conf

So, both are the same file, but it was renamed on september the 19th in 2004.