Hello to all members in this forum.
I have installed ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.87.1
I use windows 2003 server std. edition.

whene I run the freshclam.exe file , then I get the following error msg :
ERROR: Can't parse the config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf

the path where clamAV is installed in my server is :
C:\Program Files\ClamWin\bin

thanks to all who help me.

clamwin actually creates a freshclam.conf file on the fly whne doing a databasew update based on your config settings. TO use freshclamfrom command line you need to create freshclam.conf and tell freshclam where it is.

an example frschclam.conf with all fileds documented can be found in clamav distribution:
https://clamav.net/stable.php#pagestart https://clamav.net/stable.php#pagestart

you will need

DatabaseDirectory c:/<path to your db files>/
DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net

parameters and maybe others depending on your config

Alch

OK, I have installed clamav, and the version of freshclam in clamav-devel works swimmingly. However, the freshclam.conf files located in clamav-devel/etc use virtual path such as;

DatabaseDirectory /cygdrive/c/clamav-devel/share/clamav

Is the solution;

Use the version from clamav-devel, and modify the conf files to point to;

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\.clamwin\db

using;

DatabaseDirectory /cygdrive/cDocuments and Settings/All Users/.clamwin/db

If this is the solution these questions follow;

1) Does this mean everytime I upgrade clamwin, I must upgrade clamav?

2) Unix is usually particular about spaces in filenames an folders, how do I address this with cygwin in the example above?

3) Is there a better way?

Paul

All you need form clamav-devel is the freshclam.conf, then you don't need clamav-devel and can use freschlam.exe found in clamwin/bin


yes using /cygdrive/c/ is the best way to tranlate filenames to Cygwin environment


No, clamav includes freshclam form the lates stable clamav release. All you need to do is keep your freshclam.conf file and use it when running freshclam.exe from command line


Cygwin (unix emulatuion layer for Windows, that clamwin uses) is case insensitive


Not really