On 09/08/2012 10:37 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 09/08/2012 10:07 PM, Doug wrote:
On 09/08/2012 09:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
So I've gone ahead and taken some recommendations of others here,
but here's what I get when I try to update my Clam virus definitions
files...
ERROR: Please edit the example config file /etc/freshclam.conf
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/freshclam.conf
Is there something I'm missing here?.....shouldn't the application /
program I just downloaded be the latest version? The GUI displays
that the definitions are "Out Of Date" but when I click on the
"Check For Updates" option it goes through the motions and tells me
they're still outdated. Is there some kind of fix for this?...
Fedora 17
Gateway T6321 Laptop
3GB Memory
160 GB HDD
Thanks!
EGO II
Sorry about that! Just one time, you have to edit freshclam.conf.
And it's a snap. Open a terminal, become root. (Not sure if that's
necessary, but if it is, you've done that.) Type cd /etc (return) *
Type nano freshclam.conf (return). Right at the top, it tells you to
comment out the line below. Insert a # sign in front of the word
Example. Type Control-X, then Y.
(If you don't have nano, you probably have pico, which works about
the same.)
* If your distro allows you to use sudo, then you can do cd /etc sudo
nano freshclam.conf and go on from there.
Still pretty simple.
--doug
Interestingly enough, I don't have "nano" OR "pico"....when I try
either of those I get a "Command not found" message.....hmmm.....
EGO II
OK, you should be able to do this from a GUI editor. I opened KWrite
and made my way to freshclam.conf. I'm not sure how you would proceed
if you need to be root to edit the file.
It just never occurred to me that you could edit a bash file using a GUI
editor. Someone will surely step in and tell me how to do it if you
need to have root permission to edit the file.
In the meantime, try it without root, and see if it works. Just put
that # in front of Example on the eighth (?) line and save the file.
(You may not have KWrite--it's a KDE file--but there
is certainly some simple editor available on your distro.)
--doug
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