Mailserver Setup Clamav won't install

[billmckinstry]

Hi Forum,

Still trying to get that elusive simple mail server.

Have install Centos 5 (20 time!) and updated software.

Have got the system to see www and now about to do the mailserver thing.

One of the first steps is to install Clamav yet this does not show on the package list for the program add delete gui.

Tried yum install clamav and got message back that it wasn't available.

Google advises that I must first install rpmforge but at the same time has a warning from the maker of yum that this is dangerous to do

What am I missing here??

Clamav is clearly a very popular antivirus scanner yet Centos 5 does not include it or allow you to install it ??

Appreciate some guidance here as I understood centos was an easy way to go. If so, then why is the antivirus such a big deal to install ??

Does Centos 5 have an alternative antivirus to clamav??

Regards,
Bill

[eric85]

Hello,

You can install manually ClamAV on your server(CentOS 5) using following steps.

wget dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/clamav/clamav-0.80-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm
wget dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/clamav/clamd-0.80-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm
wget dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/clamav/clamav-db-0.80-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh clamav-db-0.80-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh clamav-0.80-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh clamd-0.80-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm
[root@]# /etc/init.d/clamd restart
Stopping Clam AntiVirus Daemon: [FAILED]
Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: [ OK ]

clamav RPM packages for Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora => dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/clamav/

[billmckinstry]

Thanks for the info.

Taking a break for now and will try this out in a day or two