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fawazz at gmail

Mar 28, 2008, 5:27 PM

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Urgent: problem with clamAV installation

Hi!

I need to use sigtool for extracting some sample virus signatures. For
that, I installed Fedora 8 and tried to install clamAV on it. I did as
follows:
- I downloaded and extracted clamAV
- Under root, in command line, I went into the extracted folder and ran
"./configure". That worked.
- I then tried to run "make" but I keep getting the error: "target not
found". Why is it so?

-I downloaded clamAV again and tried to install it on another PC running Red
Hat Linux (though with non-root privileges) but still get the same error.

What should I do to solve this?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Fawaz
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epodata at gmail

Mar 28, 2008, 5:53 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

On 29/03/08 01:27, Syed Fawaz Hasan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need to use sigtool for extracting some sample virus signatures. For
> that, I installed Fedora 8 and tried to install clamAV on it. I did as
> follows:
> - I downloaded and extracted clamAV
> - Under root, in command line, I went into the extracted folder and ran
> "./configure". That worked.
> - I then tried to run "make" but I keep getting the error: "target not
> found". Why is it so?
>
> -I downloaded clamAV again and tried to install it on another PC running Red
> Hat Linux (though with non-root privileges) but still get the same error.
>
> What should I do to solve this?

yum install clamav

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Erik.

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dennispe at inetnw

Mar 28, 2008, 6:09 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On 29/03/08 01:27, Syed Fawaz Hasan wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I need to use sigtool for extracting some sample virus signatures. For
>> that, I installed Fedora 8 and tried to install clamAV on it. I did as
>> follows:
>> - I downloaded and extracted clamAV
>> - Under root, in command line, I went into the extracted folder and ran
>> "./configure". That worked.
>> - I then tried to run "make" but I keep getting the error: "target not
>> found". Why is it so?
>>
>> -I downloaded clamAV again and tried to install it on another PC running Red
>> Hat Linux (though with non-root privileges) but still get the same error.
>>
>> What should I do to solve this?
>
> yum install clamav
>

And the every helpful

yum whatprovides sigtool

dp
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fawazz at gmail

Mar 29, 2008, 1:22 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

Thanks. I did that and the installation seems to have gone fine.
However, where do you think clamav is installed? It is not in /usr/bin. How
can I run clamav and sigtool?

Thanks.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Erik P. Olsen <epodata[at]gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29/03/08 01:27, Syed Fawaz Hasan wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need to use sigtool for extracting some sample virus signatures. For
> > that, I installed Fedora 8 and tried to install clamAV on it. I did as
> > follows:
> > - I downloaded and extracted clamAV
> > - Under root, in command line, I went into the extracted folder and ran
> > "./configure". That worked.
> > - I then tried to run "make" but I keep getting the error: "target not
> > found". Why is it so?
> >
> > -I downloaded clamAV again and tried to install it on another PC running
> Red
> > Hat Linux (though with non-root privileges) but still get the same
> error.
> >
> > What should I do to solve this?
>
> yum install clamav
>
> --
> Erik.
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
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dennispe at inetnw

Mar 29, 2008, 1:27 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

Syed Fawaz Hasan wrote:
> Thanks. I did that and the installation seems to have gone fine.
> However, where do you think clamav is installed? It is not in /usr/bin. How
> can I run clamav and sigtool?
>
> Thanks.

The file names to look for:

clamd
clamdscan
clamscan
freshclam
sigtool
clamconf
clamd.conf
freshclam.conf

In my case (Red Hat) the binaries installed in /usr/sbin and /usr/bin,
and the conf files installed in /etc.

I installed the clamav server and client packages.

dp
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shuttlebox at gmail

Mar 29, 2008, 1:32 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Syed Fawaz Hasan <fawazz[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. I did that and the installation seems to have gone fine.
> However, where do you think clamav is installed? It is not in /usr/bin. How
> can I run clamav and sigtool?

# which clamscan

If that doesn't work:

# rpm -qa | grep clam

You will get a list of package names, now do the following command to
list the files in the packages:

# rpm -ql packagename

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dennispe at inetnw

Mar 29, 2008, 1:33 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

Dennis Peterson wrote:
> Syed Fawaz Hasan wrote:
>> Thanks. I did that and the installation seems to have gone fine.
>> However, where do you think clamav is installed? It is not in /usr/bin. How
>> can I run clamav and sigtool?
>>
>> Thanks.
>

Forgot to add:

When I run this command:
# rpm -qa |grep clam

I get this:

clamav-db-0.92.1-1.el4.rf
clamd-0.92.1-1.el4.rf
clamav-0.92.1-1.el4.rf

These are the packages the Red Hat installer found and installed.

dp
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epodata at gmail

Mar 29, 2008, 3:04 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

On 29/03/08 21:22, Syed Fawaz Hasan wrote:
> Thanks. I did that and the installation seems to have gone fine.
> However, where do you think clamav is installed? It is not in /usr/bin. How
> can I run clamav and sigtool?

Do "locate clamdoc.pdf" and when found read it. You find clamav in both /usr/bin
and /usr/sbin, the binary you'll use is clamscan. What you do with sigtool I
don't know.

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Erik.
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fawazz at gmail

Mar 29, 2008, 3:28 PM

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Re: Urgent: problem with clamAV installation [In reply to]

I needed to use sigtool to extract and use the signatures from the database.

It worked. Thanks to all of you for your quick help.

--
Fawaz

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Erik P. Olsen <epodata[at]gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29/03/08 21:22, Syed Fawaz Hasan wrote:
> > Thanks. I did that and the installation seems to have gone fine.
> > However, where do you think clamav is installed? It is not in /usr/bin.
> How
> > can I run clamav and sigtool?
>
> Do "locate clamdoc.pdf" and when found read it. You find clamav in both
> /usr/bin
> and /usr/sbin, the binary you'll use is clamscan. What you do with sigtool
> I
> don't know.
>
> --
> Erik.
> _______________________________________________
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> http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
>
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