Lawrence Sheed // 27 Mar 2009 // Comments Off on Crib notes on updating Clamav

The notes below are more for my benefit, but others may get some use out of it.
We use debian for our system, and are loosely based on the qmail setup over at http://qmail.jms1.net / http://qmailrocks.org

#ClamAV has some new features, so needs libcurses for stuff like clamdtop

apt-get install libncurses5-dev

cd /downloads

#get latest version

axel http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clamav/clamav-0.95.tar.gz

tar -zxvf clamav-0.95.tar.gz

#We use /usr for db /etc for conf files

./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc

make

#need to remove clam scanning from simcontrol or there will be bounces while we install due to lack of clamd

pico /var/qmail/control/simcontrol

clamav=no

#update qmail settings again

/var/qmail/bin/update-qmail #our own script…

#can now run make install, as its now safe…

make install

#stop the clamd service

cd /service

svc -d clamd clamd/log

#run clamd manually to check for errors

clamd

#if warning about /var/run/clamd.pid can’t be created, make a /var/run/clamd folder

mkdir /var/run/clamav

chown clamav.clamav /var/run/clamav

pico /etc/clamd

#change pid file location

PidFile /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid

#save & try again

clamd

#check logs if ok / not, troubleshoot yourself…

#restart service

cd /service

svc -u clamd clamd/log

#check everything is running ok – should see runtimes of > 2 seconds…

svstat * */log

#Re-enable virus scanning.

pico /var/qmail/control/simcontrol

clam=yes

/var/qmail/bin/update-qmail

#check mail is working ok – wait for a non spam / virus message to process and give clamd status 0 (may take a while!)

tail /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/current

#install SCAMP – See http://www.sanesecurity.com (Additional phishing / trojan protection db’s for clamav)

cd /downloads

wget ftp://seibercom.net/pub/scamp.tar.gz

tar -xzvf scamp.tar.gz

cd  scamp-5.1/

cp scamp.sh /usr/local/bin

#run once to configure

scamp.sh

#run again to do gpg key generation

scamp.sh

#add to crontab

crontab -e

#add scamp

#Update Clam Alternate Scanner DB – Phishing / Trojan etc
0     */4   *   *     *     /usr/local/bin/scamp.sh -L -q -R

#done. Suggest watch logs for a while, and make sure things are running smoothly.

tail /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd/current -F