Re: Fedora-32 Freshclam not running

"Derek Atkins" <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:54:07 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.virus.maiamailguard
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks.

A long time ago, the clamav-update package included
/etc/cron.d/clamav-update which would automatically call freshclam.  So
when you installed clamav-update package (like you do), it would auto-run
the updates.

Anyways, I figured I would just help the next guy along, so they don't go
2 days or more without updates.  I would never had known it was not
running had I not looked at the logwatch report!

-derek

On Tue, February 2, 2021 12:50 pm, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Derek -
>
> The script does run freshclam to populate/update the definitions before
> starting clamd, but the thought was that the admin would determine how
> they
> prefer to do their updates, either running freshclam from a cron job, or
> running the freshclam service.
>
> The installer has been updated to enable the freshclam service, but the
> rest will be up to the admin.
>
> Jake
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 6:24 AM Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> HI,
>>
>> I recently installed Maia on Fedora-32 and today I noticed that
>> clamav-freshclam wasn't started.  Specifically, I got an error in
>> logwatch
>> that it didn't run!  A long time ago this used to be a cron script, but
>> at
>> least in F32 (not sure when this changed) it became a SystemD service.
>>
>> So installers/fedora-32.sh needs to be updated to run:
>>
>> systemctl enable clamav-freshclam.service
>>
>> and, arguable, to start it as well.
>>
>> I'll leave it to you do decide where it should go.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -derek
>>
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>>        [email protected]             www.ihtfp.com
>>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
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       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
       [email protected]             www.ihtfp.com
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant

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