[clamav-users] Error message "outdated version" although "yum list installed" reports correct version of clamav

[Jobst Schmalenbach]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 07:32:12PM -0800, Dennis Peterson (dennispe at inetnw.com) wrote:
> On 2/19/14, 7:03:15PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> >
> >On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:32:18PM -0500, Shawn Webb (swebb at sourcefire.com) wrote:
> >>On Feb 19, 2014 9:28 PM, "Jobst Schmalenbach" <jobst at barrett.com.au> wrote:

[snip]

> For the previous version of ClamAV it looked like this:
> Software version: 0.98
> Package version: 0.98-2.el6 <-- Version 2 of the package as I found
> an error in the "UserName" in the script. I use smmsp where the
> default user is often clamav or just clam, depending on the distro.
> That requires I rebuild the package.

Ok, I swtiched ... now using epel.

Added another user to the password file 

  clamav:x:3456:3456:ClamAntiVirus:/var/clamav:/sbin/nologin
  # added this one before installing epel clamav
  clam:x:3456:3456:ClamAntiVirus:/var/clamav:/sbin/nologin

and it worked without much fiddling....


Jobst



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