antivirus progs &firewall

bograt · 01-30-2005, 01:36 PM

I get what your saying?

bograt · 01-30-2005, 04:00 PM

Ok realised what you where saying "read things properly"

Ok commented out the lines required run freshclam and get this message.

ClamAV update process started at Sun Jan 30 09:03:07 2005
main.cvd is up to date (version: 29, sigs: 29086, f-level: 3, builder: tomek)
ERROR: Can't create new file ./clamav-522673b5653c011c in /usr/share/clamav
ERROR: The database directory must be writable for UID 1000 or GID 100
ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net (IP: 195.184.96.15)
dad@linux:~>

how do I rectify this????????????

btmiller · 01-30-2005, 05:07 PM

Your user doesn't have permission to write to that directory, which is unsurprising as normal users aren't generally allowed to write outside of their home directory and /tmp or /var/tmp. If you want Clam to run as your user account, you'll need to create /usr/share/clamav as root and give your users permission to write to it. Usually the recommended procedure is the create a separate account for clam to run under.

BTW, don't worry too much about this. Viruses on Linux are extremely rare. This would be a useful; thing to have though if you want to scan your incoming mail before downloading in to a Windows box (or for scanning your Windows partitions directly, if you dual boot).

kamorm · 01-30-2005, 08:01 PM

I am somewhat new to Linux and I am having an issue with loading the Clamav on Fedora Core 3. I can get it configured with no problems but when I go to "make" its says there are no make files even though they are listed. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.

bograt · 01-31-2005, 09:30 AM

Thanks for that info It helped me sort it

Quote:

Originally posted by btmiller
Your user doesn't have permission to write to that directory, which is unsurprising as normal users aren't generally allowed to write outside of their home directory and /tmp or /var/tmp. If you want Clam to run as your user account, you'll need to create /usr/share/clamav as root and give your users permission to write to it. Usually the recommended procedure is the create a separate account for clam to run under.

BTW, don't worry too much about this. Viruses on Linux are extremely rare. This would be a useful; thing to have though if you want to scan your incoming mail before downloading in to a Windows box (or for scanning your Windows partitions directly, if you dual boot).