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

[TH123]

> Attn: G.W. Haywood
>
> I just received your reply. Thanks. I posted my fix before I received your quick answer. I am a beginner at Clamav and have just begun to use it in the terminal. Thanks again for your input.
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Friday, July 2nd, 2021 at 2:07 PM, G.W. Haywood clamav at jubileegroup.co.uk wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Ged.