[clamav-users] problem with clamav upgrade

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, ratatouille via clamav-users wrote:

> On a centos7 I did a yum update today and new version of clamav
> was installed.
>
> ps aux |grep clam
> amavis    6683  0.0 20.9 1016312 814072 ?      Ssl  15:14   0:00 /usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf
>
> # freshclam
> Wed Dec 11 15:52:45 2019 -> ClamAV update process started at Wed Dec 11 15:52:45 2019
> Wed Dec 11 15:52:45 2019 -> ^Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> Wed Dec 11 15:52:45 2019 -> ^Local version: 0.101.5 Recommended version: 0.102.1

Did you not just tell me in another thread (failed to write to") that
you compiled ClamAV from source?  In that case, why would you want to
allow 'yum update' to install an older version of ClamAV?

> What is going wrong here? Should clamd be running after amavis is started?

I know nothing about Amavis, nor about its possible uses with clamd,
but I am a little surprised that any clamd configuration file should
be called 'amavisd.conf'.  That seems to me to be very confusing.

If you intend to use clamd routinely, I would expect it to be started
at boot by one of the boot scripts designed for that purpose.  There
are several different approaches to this, you need to find out which
approach is used in your system and make sure that it is working.

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73,
Ged.