[clamav-users] Clamd freshclam Service

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Will Watters via clamav-users wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there anywhere to get clamd freshclam file to run as a daemon for
> Centos 6 please, so the service can be stopped and started, etc.
>
> I have this for Centos 7 but is systemd residing in
> /lib/systemd/system/clamd-freshclam.service, which does not work for
> Centos 6:

As we have already said,
   *** systemd and ansible are not part of CentOS 6 ***
Instead CentOS 6 uses
      /etc/init.d/clamd

You haven't mentioned your platform and clamav is not an official
part of RHEL/CentOS so I cannot give links to specific packages.
To my mind the "official" way would be to use the epel repo
(Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
As Graeme said, you would want at least the
     clamav and clamav-db
packages, but they wont give you the latest version of clamav.

But, seriously, if you are that new to CentOS 6 it is far too late
to start. RHEL/CentOS/SL6 was a great distribution (possibly the best 
linux release ever) but at ten years old I would not recommend it
even if it still had support beyond next week.

If there are applications and data you still have not moved
onto a newer OS, I would put them on a containerized version
of CentOS6 and use the host OS to provide anti-malware services.

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
 			andrew at aitchison.me.uk