installing clamav daemon (clamd)

[yanvolking]

Hello Community,

I have just started to work with Fedora after many years with Ubuntu. I have installed Fedora 17 32bit on an acer aspire one d270. Everything works fine except I am having problems with the antivirus issue. With Ubuntu I just did :

sudo apt-get install clamav
sudo apt-get install clamav-daemon

and my antivirus protection was set up with the daemon running to protect my system in real time.

With Fedora I have been able to install the clamav anti virus system but not the daemon. This means that I can run virus scans on command but there is no continuous background system to protect the system, well just that: continuously. I have dabbled with clamd based on many forum entry recommendations, but I can never get clamd to work.

Can anyone point me to a web site or forum entry that offers straight forward instructions on how to set up clamd, and get it running? or for that matter give me the instructions directly?

Thanks

[PabloTwo]

You can see what packages Fedora has for clamav using: sudo yum list clamav*

It may be that you need to install the clamav-scanner package.

BASH:~/-> sudo yum info clamav-scanner
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto
Available Packages
Name        : clamav-scanner
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 0.97.6
Release     : 1600.fc16
Size        : 22 k
Repo        : updates
Summary     : Clamav scanner daemon
URL         : http://www.clamav.net
License     : GPLv2
Description : This package contains a generic system wide clamd service which is
            : e.g. used by the clamav-milter package.

[yanvolking]

Hi Pablo Two,

Thanks for the advice. I ran

sudo yum install clamav-scanner

and the installation process ran successfully :



The problem is now I don't know what to do. I run the commands :

Clamav, clamav-scanner, freshclam etc... and all I get is :

bash: <command>: command not found...

Can you tell me how to activate the daemon? or do I have to install other packages in addition to clamav-scanner?

Thanks

[PabloTwo]

Can you tell me how to activate the daemon? or do I have to install other packages in addition to clamav-scanner?

No, I'm sorry, I can't, as I don't use clamav. From looking at the various clamav packages, it would seem to me though that it would run as a service on F15 and later, likely installed from the clamav-scanner-systemd package. If so, one would start that service with the something like:

# systemctl enable clamav.service
# syustemctl start clamav.service

The name of the service might be clamav-scanner, I don't know.
Have you tried:

man clamav

I'm probably not the one to be offering advise/suggestions as I'm nor really familiar with clamav. Surely, though, others on the forum should be able to point you in the right direction.

---------- Post added at 03:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:08 PM ----------

Maybe it's as simple as following this guide. Should be plenty of other guides on the web. I found this one in two seconds with Google.