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Author: Jeremy Kitchen
Date:  
To: ClamAV users ML
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] getting nag screen about old installation even after installing 0.87.1
On Monday 19 December 2005 06:01 pm, C. Andrews Lavarre wrote:
> I'll keep this short since I'm not sure that I have permission to
> post yet. I'm getting the digest, but being told my postings here
> are not allowed. According to what I understood from the various
> instructions and nag messages, I must subscribe first to the digest
> and that then allows me to post here.


If you plan to actually participate in the discussions on the list, I would
highly recommend subscribing to the 'normal' version of the list, which makes
it easier to reply to and follow discussion threads. If you're just
subscribing to read the discussions and watch for announcements and such,
then the digest should be fine :)

> Not particularly clear, but I've done that and am receiving (and
> nuking) the digest, since I'd rather work here.
>
> So let's see what happens.
>
> In short, I nuked 0.85.x, got rid of all the files I could find. I
> then installed 0.87.1, checked versions, run both clamscan and
> freshclam just fine manually without any rootmail or messages
> complaints, but when invoked from a shell script that does nothing
> more than call the program with switches, I get a nag in rootmail
> that declares that my installation is outdated and I should read the
> FAQ and upgrade to 0.87.1
>
> Of course the FAQ doesn't have any entry addressing this problem.


well, it's not really a clamav problem :)

> The shell script is simply
>
> DATE=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
>     echo "Current date is "$DATE
>     cd /
>     clamscan --recursive --infected >
> /home/andy/Desktop/$DATE"_infected.txt" &


which clamscan

kitchen@tranquility ~ $ which clamscan
/usr/local/bin/clamscan

also, clamscan -V will tell you what version it thinks it is.

-Jeremy

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