Installing the File::Scan::ClamAV module

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On This Page 1 Installing on Windows 1.1 Download 1.2 Install 1.3 Related Articles 2 Installing UNIX-like systems 2.1 FreeBSD 3 Difficulty Installing File::Scan::ClamAV 1.8 3.1 An example of how to make the needed changes on Linux 3.2 An example of how to make the needed changes on Mac OS X

Installing on Windows

Download

• File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8.tar.gz - Website

Install

• Extract \lib\File\Scan\ClamAV.pm from File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8.tar.gz
• Copy ClamAV.pm to the following directory

C:\Perl\site\lib\File\Scan\

• Restart ASSP and it should now see File:Scan:ClamAV as installed.

Related Articles

Visit ClamAV Win32 for instructions on getting the ClamAV clamd daemon running as a service on Windows.

Installing UNIX-like systems

FreeBSD

To install the port:

cd /usr/ports/security/p5-File-Scan-ClamAV/ && make install clean

To add the package:

pkg_add -r p5-File-Scan-ClamAV

Difficulty Installing File::Scan::ClamAV 1.8

You will likely see the following errors if you try to install File::Scan::ClamAV 1.8 with a recent version of the ClamAV package:

ERROR: Parse error at line 2: Option Foreground requires boolean argument 
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file clamav.conf 

ClamAV has been updated to require Boolean arguments (true/false, yes/no) where before only keywords were required before. This disambiguates the config file, but File::Scan::ClamAV has not been updated since the change. It includes its own ClamAV config file with keywords and no Boolean arguments.

To fix this, do an interactive install of File::Scan::ClamAV and change /root/.cpan/build/File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8/clamav.conf (or wherever your CPAN modules are) from:

LocalSocket /root/.cpan/build/File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8/clamsock 
Foreground  
MaxThreads 1 
ScanArchive  
ArchiveMaxFileSize 1M 
ArchiveMaxRecursion 1 
ArchiveMaxFiles 2

to: (The necessary changes are in bold.)

LocalSocket /root/.cpan/build/File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8/clamsock 
Foreground true 
MaxThreads 1 
ScanArchive true 
ArchiveMaxFileSize 1M 
ArchiveMaxRecursion 1 
ArchiveMaxFiles 2 

An example of how to make the needed changes on Linux

 sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell 
 test File::Scan::ClamAV - this will fail but is necessary to download the module. 
 look File::Scan::ClamAV 
 vi clamav.conf - make the changes above 
 make install 
 exit 

An example of how to make the needed changes on Mac OS X

 sudo cpan 
 test File::Scan::ClamAV - this will fail but is necessary to download the module. 
 look File::Scan::ClamAV 
 pico clamav.conf - make the changes above 
 make install 
 exit 

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