[clamav-users] Unable to run freshclam on Debian Jessie

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, February 27, 2016 11:38:16 PM Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote:
> --- debian at kitterman.com wrote:
> >From: Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com>
> >To: clamav-users at lists.clamav.net
> >Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Unable to run freshclam on Debian Jessie
> >Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:02:19 -0500
> >
> >What are you trying to accomplish?
> 
> I was trying to update the virus database and signatures.
> 
> >By default in Debian freshclam is run as a daemon and regularly updates the
> >virus signatures.  If you
> >want to run it by hand for some reason, you'll need to stop the daemon 
first:
> Thanks, I didn't know that.
> 
> From your reply I infer that the error messages that popped up on my screen
> were due to the fact that I had not disabled the freshclam daemon that was
> already running in the background.

That's almost certainly the case.  You can verify this.  There's more than one 
way to do it.  One would be to run this command on the relevant system:

ps -AF|grep freshclam

The output should include a line that ends with something like:

/usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet

Scott K