Bug 708621

Summary: The default freshclam.conf preventing freshclam from running
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Othman Madjoudj <athmanem>
Component: clamavAssignee: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: collura, nb, ondrejj, redhat-bugzilla, rh-bugzilla, steve
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freshclam.conf fix none

Description Othman Madjoudj 2011-05-28 12:06:32 UTC 
Description of problem:

When I try to run freshclam for the first time I've noticed that the following errors:

# freshclam 
ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/freshclam.conf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
clamav-update-0.97-1501.fc15.i686

How reproducible:
100%

Additional info:
I've attached a patch to fix the issue.
Comment 1 Othman Madjoudj 2011-05-28 12:08:09 UTC 
Created attachment 501468 [details]
freshclam.conf fix
Comment 2 Enrico Scholz 2011-06-13 11:42:53 UTC 
it is the expected behavior. you have to configure freshclam or clamav before you can use it.