Documenting ClamAV on Fedora?

Dave Smith dave.smith at tstt.net.tt
Mon Apr 12 11:11:22 UTC 2004


When you produce you amended howto please don't forget to post it up.
I've copied your original draft and would not like to miss the final
version.

Dave

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 01:14, Matt Hansen wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 10:00, Ron Goulard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've been working on documenting a clamav install on Fedora and was
> > considering posting it for others (fedoranews.org for instance). 
> > However, before I do that, I would like to be sure there are no errors
> > and that it is easily understood (much of it was done by memory).
> > 
> > It's not terribly long, nor complicated, but I would appreciate some
> > feedback from others if possible, to either verify or improve it.
> > 
> > It's temporarily located at 
> > 
> > http://www.techville.org/linux/fedora+clamav-howto.html
> > 
> > And in the meantime, I'm hoping that my 10km wireless hop doesn't fall
> > down and cause the site to disappear :)
> > 
> > Thanks to all.
> Hi Ron
> 
> As Alexander Dalloz already mentioned not needing the "define"
> statement, I'd like mention also:
> file:///usr/share/doc/clamav-milter-*/RPM-clamav-milter.txt states the
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER line should be:
> 
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav-milter',
> `S=local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock, F=,T=S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')
>                                                             ^^^^^
> Notice the extra bit at the end that wasn't in your line.
> 
> A couple other bits of feedback:
> 
> * There's no mention of setting the daemons to start on boot. i.e. a
> line such as:
>   - /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 clamd/clamav-milter/freshclam on
> 
> * Also, to keep to general best practices, the line where you start the
> services should use /sbin/service instead of calling the script
> directly.
> 
> Apart from that, it's a nice, simple-to-follow guide to get ClamAV up
> and running.
> 
> Regards,
> -Matt
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