On Aug 13, 2019, at 7:46 AM, Tuomo Soini <tis@foobar.fi> wrote:

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:37:47 +0000
Graeme Fowler via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

On 12/08/2019, 16:21, "Nick Howitt" <nick@howitts.co.uk> wrote:

Then you can't start clamd on installation?  

Run a postinstall scriptlet that calls freshclam as part of the
package installer, perhaps?

Exactly. That's how I have done clamav packaging for years.

%post scriptlet has

if [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then
   systemctl start freshclam.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
endif

So freshclam is run immediately from package install making sure
databases are there before anybody has time to even think starting
clamd.