How to update clamav virus definitions?

[getyourkarthick]

I have installed clamav antivirus,and while scanning it shows the following warning
LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************
LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days! ***
LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible. ***
LibClamAV Warning: **************************************************

And so i have tried to update the virus database as root,using this command
# freshclam
bash: freshclam: command not found


but i cant,can you pls say me how to update the virus database...

Thanks in advance.

[Rubberman]

Update the database with the command: freshclam
Then, enable daily updating with the command: freshclam -d -c 1

[reed9]

You tried freshclam and it said command not found?

If you type which freshclam what is the output?

[Rubberman]

You tried freshclam and it said command not found?

If you type which freshclam what is the output?

Ah! I missed that freshclam wasn't found. It should be in /usr/bin, but it needs to be executed by root, or with sudo.

[getyourkarthick]

[root@karthick karthick]# which freshclam
/usr/bin/which: no freshclam in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/karthick/bin)
[root@karthick karthick]#

[Rubberman]

If you are missing freshclam, then clamav did not get installed properly. What distributeion+version of Linux are you using? And how did you install clamav?

[getyourkarthick]

I am using fedora 10 and i have installed clamav using yum command "yum install clamav"

[Rubberman]

Execute this command as root:

yum list | grep clam

and post the results here.

[signmem]

mabey there is one compile version.

find / -name freshclam

[getyourkarthick]

[root@karthick karthick]# yum list | grep clam

clamav.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 installed
clamav-data.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 installed
clamav-filesystem.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 installed
clamav-lib.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 installed
clamav-data-empty.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-devel.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-milter.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-milter-core.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-milter-sendmail.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-milter-sysv.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-server.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-server-sysv.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
clamav-update.i386 0.94.2-1.fc10 updates
exim-clamav.i386 4.69-7.fc10 fedora
[root@karthick karthick]#