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Arunas Bartisius
Asked: 2015-02-05 08:09:45 +0800 CST

Logwatch clam-update warnings

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In Debian Linux stable version, there is always lag between current and stable version. Thus one of packages Clamav is very noisy about this, and log files are full of:

WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.98.5 Recommended version: 0.98.6
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq

I am using monitoring package Logwatch, and it sends all this to my email. Is there a way to stop freshclam from writting this warning to log or skip it from Logwatch?

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  1. Best Answer

    This is workaround for Logwatch.

    After digging into programs, I found that ni Debian by default there is no Logwatch configuration file, which should be placed in /etc/logwatch/conf and it uses default configuration file from: /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf

    Thus ONE workaround is to make own configuration for Logwatch and SKIP clam-auth module from report. This can be done in such steps:

    cp /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf /etc/logwatch/conf

    Edit /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf with favorite editor, find section in the file:

    # The 'Service' option expects either the name of a filter
# (in /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/*) or 'All'.
# The default service(s) to report on.  This should be left as All for
# most people.
Service = All

    and ADD such line:

    Service = "-clam-update"

    This will skip freshclam log file from reports. This lead to other danger, that if updates start failing for some reason, you will not be notified about this.

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