Re: virus scanner

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:47:08PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 19:05, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> 
> > You will find all your Evolution mail under
> > ~/evolution/local/(your_folders). Each folder has a file called mbox
> > which contains the text of all your emails. The uses for the other files
> > will be obvious. Simply clamscan -r ~/evolution should do the trick. It
> > appears to work for me. Runs to conclusion, puts up the summary, all OK.
> 
> Thanks. That works well, and I agree at the end - how *do* we update the
> virus signature file? 

ClamAV comes with "freshclam".  I put a script called "clamav" in
/etc/cron.daily, to wit:
--------- snip -------------
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet -l /var/log/clam-update.log
--------- snip -------------

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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