Re: Fedora-32 Freshclam not running

At the first company where we deployed maia, we put in a cron job that ran
"sigtool -V" on all the clamav boxes and alerted us if the definitions were
out of date for any reason.

Jake



On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 9:54 AM Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
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> >>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
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>
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>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>        [email protected]             www.ihtfp.com
>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
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