jamie logged into my machine to fix another issue and found that the freshclam or clam update package was not installed
he installed it for me... but it is causing posts to the log which read...
ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf.
ERROR: Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf
I have to go out of town until wednesday... I don't have time this morning to work on this... but thought I'd get it posted and maybe you'd see it and respond before I leave. You might know instantly what to do for me...
but also this bug fix needed to be posted for future installs. thanks.
here's a copy of that file it wants to read... maybe just commenting out Example will fix...
##
## Example config file for freshclam
## Please read the freshclam.conf(5) manual before editing this file.
## This file may be optionally merged with clamd.conf.
##
# Comment or remove the line below.
Example
# Path to the database directory.
# WARNING: It must match clamd.conf's directive!
# Default: hardcoded (depends on installation options)
#DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav
# Path to the log file (make sure it has proper permissions)
# Default: disabled
UpdateLogFile /var/log/freshclam.log
# Enable verbose logging.
# Default: disabled
#LogVerbose
# Use system logger (can work together with UpdateLogFile).
# Default: disabled
#LogSyslog
# Specify the type of syslog messages - please refer to 'man syslog'
# for facility names.
# Default: LOG_LOCAL6
#LogFacility LOG_MAIL
# This option allows you to save the process identifier of the daemon
# Default: disabled
#PidFile /var/run/freshclam.pid
# By default when started freshclam drops privileges and switches to the
# "clamav" user. This directive allows you to change the database owner.
# Default: clamav (may depend on installation options)
#DatabaseOwner clamav
# Initialize supplementary group access (freshclam must be started by root).
# Default: disabled
#AllowSupplementaryGroups
# Use DNS to verify virus database version. Freshclam uses DNS TXT records
# to verify database and software versions. With this directive you can change
# the database verification domain.
# Default: enabled, pointing to current.cvd.clamav.net
#DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net
# Uncomment the following line and replace XY with your country
# code. See http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm for the full list.
# Default: There is no default, which results in an error when running freshclam
#DatabaseMirror db.XY.clamav.net
# database.clamav.net is a round-robin record which points to our most
# reliable mirrors. It's used as a fall back in case db.XY.clamav.net is
# not working. DO NOT TOUCH the following line unless you know what you
# are doing.
DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net
# How many attempts to make before giving up.
# Default: 3 (per mirror)
#MaxAttempts 5
# Number of database checks per day.
# Default: 12 (every two hours)
#Checks 24
# Proxy settings
# Default: disabled
#HTTPProxyServer myproxy.com
#HTTPProxyPort 1234
#HTTPProxyUsername myusername
#HTTPProxyPassword mypass
# Use aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd as client address for downloading databases. Useful for
# multi-homed systems.
# Default: Use OS'es default outgoing IP address.
#LocalIPAddress aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
# Send the RELOAD command to clamd.
# Default: disabled
#NotifyClamd
# By default it uses the hardcoded configuration file but you can force an
# another one.
#NotifyClamd /config/file/path
# Run command after successful database update.
# Default: disabled
#OnUpdateExecute command
# Run command when database update process fails.
# Default: disabled
#OnErrorExecute command
# Run command when freshclam reports outdated version.
# In the command string %v will be replaced by the new version number.
# Default: disabled
#OnOutdatedExecute command
# Don't fork into background.
# Default: disabled
#Foreground
# Enable debug messages in libclamav.
# Default: disabled
#Debug
# Timeout in seconds when connecting to the database server.
# Default: 30
#ConnectTimeout 60
# Timeout in seconds when reading from the database server.
# Default: 30
#ReceiveTimeout 60
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