[clamav-users] Fw: Freshclam ERROR: Initialization error! WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, TH123 via clamav-users wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> > On Friday, July 2nd, 2021 at 1:06 PM, TH123 <round12345 at protonmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with freshclam.
> > >
> > > $ sudo freshclam
> > > WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option SafeBrowsing at /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf:22
> > > ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process
> > > ...
> > ...
> > Do you already have a freshclam daemon running?
> > ...
> 
> Thanks for any consideration of the problem, but I found the solution.
>
> sudo freshclam command is used for updating your antivirus database,
> which cannot be run while another instance (auto update) is already
> running.

That's right.  If that doesn't sound like what I said, you need to
think a bit more about what you're doing.

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73,
Ged.