[Mimedefang] Mimedefang and clamav

John john at jjgb.com
Sun Jan 26 18:08:00 EST 2003


Howdy!  Thanks for your response.  Read below.
At 03:20 PM 1/26/03, you wrote:
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>John spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > CLAMSCAN 'clamav'    NO (not found)
> > CLAMD    'clamd'     NO (not found)
> > I guess what is killing me is the no recognition of clamav in the configure
> > script, when in fact it is installed.
>
>
>where is clamd? where is clamscan? mine are /usr/sbin and /usr/bin
>respectively. MD found them just fine.

No really wierd place <G>

/usr/sbin/clamd
/usr/bin/clamscan

Same place as yours.


> >
> > Maybe it's my mimedefang-filter file.  There are no examples anywhere of
> > setting up the filter with clamd.  I am no novice to Unix, (Linux) and MD &
> > SpamAssassin are playing nicely together.
>
>doubtfull. here's mine as an example. it works for me.
>
> > MD doc's indicate MD should automatically recognize Clam stuff...
>
>as long as it is looking wherever you installed it. did you install it to
>/opt?

No.  Changed --prefix=/usr
.i.e.: ./configure --prefix=/usr  <-- exact configure command.
clamav.conf was placed in /usr/local/etc by the above configure script.


> > Can someone please point me in the right direction...
>
>Maybe we could get David to add some configure switches? something like:
>./configure --with-clamav=/opt/clamav
>David?

Looked at your config file and you are right.  Nothing special 
there...  Mine's very simular...

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