Unable to start Clamav

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, November 14, 2005 10:34 AM +0000 Sharon Kimble 
<skimble04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just installed clamav from extras, very specifically ;-
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> clamav-data.i386 0.87-1.fc4
> clamav-lib.i386 0.87-1.fc4
> clamav-server.i386 0.87-1.fc4
> clamav.i386 0.87-1.fc4
> clamav-update.i386 0.87-1.fc4
> clamav-devel.i386 0.87-1.fc4
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> and have then gone to the 'Service Management' gui to start it off, but
> there  is nothing there for clamd nor freshclam.

Read the README in /usr/share/doc/clamav-server-*. It explains how to set 
up the service scripts for the Extras version of clamd. It looks 
complicated, but it really only takes about 10-15 minutes to copy all the 
config files and create the symlinks. You need to do this for each client 
of clamd. (I did it for MIMEDefang, and it was pretty straightforward.)

For freshclam, look at the crontab file in /etc/cron.d. You also need to 
edit /etc/freshclam.conf to comment out the Example entry and set your 
regional DNS name to use to check for new data files, and set the policy 
for time to check.