Thanks everyone for chiming into this. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond
(again).
So basically, I just need to open those two files mentioned above and edit them
to get everything running?
Thanks!
Nathan Parker
President/CEO
Mallard Computer, Inc.
If you completely installed ClamAV from RPM packages one would have installed
sample copies of freshclam.conf and clamd.conf. Those files need to be edited
after they're installed. Information for doing so can be found in the
documentation at clamav.net.
Specifically, freshclam.conf has the
Looks like permission errors. Is freshclam.conf and your database owned by the
clamav user and are you running freshclam as such?
-Al-
On May 29, 2016, at 6:55 PM, Nathan Parker wrote:
> Hi there!
>
>
> Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I've had issues
That error usually means that main.cvd is corrupted but since freshclam doesn’t
even run I would start there, it might be just a matter of sorting out your
/etc/freshclam.conf file
> On May 29, 2016, at 6:55 PM, Nathan Parker
> wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
>
> Sorry
Hi there!
Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I've had issues receiving the Daily
Digests.
Here's the error message I receive when I attempt to run freshclam:
[parkernathan@redhatpc ~]$ freshclam
ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf
ERROR: Can't open/parse
Can you post the error here? That image is impossible to read.
> On May 21, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Nathan Parker
> wrote:
>
> I recently installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2 I believe) on a VM on my
> Mac. I have been trying to install ClamAV on it and get clamscan
I recently installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2 I believe) on a VM on my
Mac. I have been trying to install ClamAV on it and get clamscan and freshclam
functioning. I am running into some issues.
Here’s a link to my post on Red Hat forums with an image of my Terminal output
with the error