[clamav-users] Configuration Error

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 29 Aug 2021, Vaughn A. Hart wrote:

> I have run the configuration command, after installation of
> clamav-0.104.0-rc2.macos.universal.pkg,

Please tell us exactly how you installed the package.

Have you installed any previous version of ClamAV?  In particular,
have you previously installed any version 0.104 release candidate?
Are you aware that a release candidate is not ready for production
use - especially a 0.104 release candidate - and that there may be
things in the package which do not behave as might be expected?

> to generate the conf files from the default configuration.

Although I have never installed ClamAV on a Mac, I believe that the
installation should normally create configuration files for you, and
that you should not need to run 'clamconf' to create them.  I have
only ever run clamconf to show configuration settings.  The online
documentation may be a little misleading in this respect, it says run
these commands "if needed" - it's probably not needed.  (Incidentally
it also doesn't mention clamav-milter.conf in section "Clamconf".)

> I get no output errors and it looks like all is
> well, however when I run clamconf I get the following message:
> ...
> vaughna.hart at NaCl4 ~ % clamconf
>
> Checking configuration files in /usr/local/clamav/etc
>
> clamd.conf not found
> freshclam.conf not found
> clamav-milter.conf not found
> ...
> WARNING: freshclam.conf and clamd.conf point to different database
> directories
> ...
> I am concerned about the database location message.

You are right to be concerned.  In addition to answering the questions
above, please post the output of

clamconf -n

You can redirect the output of 'clamconf -n' to a file (use the command

clamconf -n > file

and post the content of the file) if you are unable to copy-and-paste
the entire output from stdout to your mailer.

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73,
Ged.