[clamav-users] Clamd is looking into the wrong database directory

[Dennis Peterson]

Where are your clamd.conf and freshclam.conf files located? Those packages 
expect them to be in /etc. Also try:

locate clamd.conf and
locate freshclam.conf just to be sure you don't have them scattered around your 
system.

dp

On 7/27/16 12:22 PM, Support Safe-Mail.nl wrote:
> I have a server (RHEL 6 Enterprise) running with Amavis and ClamAv which worked fine.
>
> Today i did an update of the packages and clamav was one of them. After a reboot (kernel) it doesn't work anymore and now i get tens of clamscan processes which eats my CPU power in no time.
> So i tried to start clamd with "service clamd.amavisd start" and this is what it is spitting out:
>
> # service clamd.amavisd start
> Starting clamd.amavisd: LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
> LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days! ***
> LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible. ***
> LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
> LibClamAV Error: Can't load /var/lib/clamav/mainOLD.cvd: Can't verify database integrity
> LibClamAV Error: cli_loaddbdir(): error loading database /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd
> ERROR: Can't verify database integrity
>
> But my configs (amavisd.conf & clamd.conf) have set "/var/spool/amavisd/db" as databasedirectory. And i can't find any config which have set the /var/lib/clamav directory.
>
> These are the RPM's i have installed
>
> clamav-devel-0.99.1-1.el6.x86_64
> clamav-unofficial-sigs-3.7.1-7.el6.noarch
> clamav-0.99.1-1.el6.x86_64
> clamav-db-0.99.1-1.el6.x86_64
> clamav-milter-0.99.1-1.el6.x86_64
>
> When i put the main.cvd from the "/var/spool/amavisd/db" to the "/var/lib/clamav" directory, clamd starts, but amavis doesn't log in the amavis.log (but that for the amavis community).
>
> Anyone has an idea how i can change the directory to the directory we have set?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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