Disable ClamAV on an old Kolab setup

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Wed Aug 3 02:51:47 CEST 2011


On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 07:28:54 am Vladislav Tchernev wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I have a problem with an old Kolab 1.9.4 setup that is in use in prod so
> the issue is very urgent for me. The ClamAV (0.94.2) is outdated (does not
> work with the new database formats) and was running out of an old database
> which is copied in place every night via cron. This was working OK since
> this morning when the ClamAV stop working complaining that the
> old previously working  database is malformed. At this point, up to
> my knowledge I can't upgrade the ClamAV on this version of Kolab so the
> only way to make the mail flow again is to make Amavis not to use ClamAV.
> So .. I went to  /kolab/etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf, un-commented the line
> "@bypass_virus_checks_acl = qw( . );" and restarted all services
> but unfortunately it looks like Amavis still tries to invoke Clamav and the
> delivery process if failing. Can some one help me with instructions how to
> disable ClamAV.
> 
> Thanks for your help!!!
> 
> Vlad
As far as I know you can delete the corrupted data files and the will re-
install when running freshclam
-- 
Thomas




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