clamav: ERROR : Not supported data format

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007, vu pham wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 20:59 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007, vu pham wrote:
>> >I just installed MailScanner with SpamAssasin and ClamAV. For each
>> >incoming email, /var/log/maillog shows 
>> >
>> >Jun 24 22:11:29 home2 MailScanner[3471]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
>> >545 bytes 
>> >Jun 24 22:11:29 home2 MailScanner[3471]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>> >Starting 
>> >Jun 24 22:11:32 home2 MailScanner[3471]: ERROR: Not supported data
>> >format 
>> >Jun 24 22:11:32 home2 MailScanner[3471]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> >messages 
>> >
>> >Googling shows it is one of the errors returning by ClamAV but could not
>> >find out the solution.
>> >
>> 
>> Have you run freshclam to insure that the clamav database is current?
>> 
>> What varsion of clamav?
>> 
>
>Thanks a lot, Bill. It was me who forgot to edit /etc/freshclam.conf.
>
>After editting the files /etc/freshclam.conf
>and /etc/sysconfig/freshclam, that error message disappears.

Been there, done that.

I'm glad I could help.

Bill
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