In short, I’ve written a bash script (available from github) for configuring and removing instances of clamav-server on Fedora. It lets you create and remove individual instances with a specific user and port (if you specify them) and will install the required packages if not already present on the system.
In long, we use Clam AntiVirus as our antivirus protection for Digital Preservation Recorder and talk to it over the default port, 3310.
Installing the clamav-server package under Fedora however, doesn’t actually set up an instance. In fact, it doesn’t copy any system configuration files into place at all. This means that the system is left without any working ClamAV server out of the box.
Under Fedora, ClamAV server is configured on a per user basis. This is actually quite important (unless you run as root) because the daemon needs at minimum read access (and we’ve found also write) on the files/directory being passed for scanning.
The instructions on how to configure it are located under /usr/share/doc/clamav-server-[version]/ but I have taken these instructions and written a bash script to configure all of this for you.
The script is available from github. It can create or remove an individual instance of clamav-server using a specific username and port (if you want to specify them, else it defaults to clamav on port 3310). The script will also install any required packages, if you don’t already have them on the system.
Hopefully this is useful to someone else out there and not just us 
If you find any bugs feel free to let me know.
Thanks for this, much appreciated.
Hope you will update fro new Fedora releases, as and when
No worries, good to know that it’s useful to someone else at least
I got your email about setting up a quarantine directory. I’ll have a look at that tomorrow and work out how to do it and update the script.
Cheers,
-c
Can you please show example of how you use the script to remove individual instances with a specific user and port? Also please show an example of usin the script to setup an instance as a user other than clamav?
Hi Frank,
The script should have build in help, so grab the latest copy of the script and pass –help to see examples.
-c
Found the corrct blog.
Getting this on some real\virt F16 boxes.
User is clamav,
update user is clamupdate
snipped from logwatch:
Database updated (2333889 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 194.47.250.218)
connect(): Connection refused
ERROR: NotifyClamd: Can’t connect to clamd on 127.0.0.1:3310
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 6 Nov 3 02:29 /var/run -> ../run
there is no clamav\clamd\freshclam in /var/run (/run)
Do I need to specificall uncomment relevant *.pid lines, and if yes, what permissions. chmod 660 ?
Is it running:
ps ax |grep clam
ps ax | grep clam
1701 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep –color=auto clam
[root@test07 ~]# systemctl status clamd.clamav.service
clamd.clamav.service – SYSV: The clamd server running for clamav
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.clamav)
Active: active (exited) since Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:08:07 +0100; 1min 36s ago
Process: 1023 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.clamav start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/clamd.clamav.service
Found the problem
clamd-wrapper is commented out in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.clamav
CLAMD_SERVICE=clamav
#. /usr/share/clamav/clamd-wrapper