FreeBSD Install Guide

From ASSPSMTP

On This Page 1 Requirements 2 Installation 3 Post Installation 3.1 ClamAV Configuration 4 Notes

Requirements

• An up-to-date ports tree
• FreeBSD 6.1 or greater

Installation

• Navigate to the assp directory in the ports tree

cd usr/ports/mail/assp

• Install ASSP

make install clean

• Choose the perl modules that you want installed

Required modules are installed no matter what. Only optional modules are shown.

• The required software dependencies will also be installed

Post Installation

• Enable ASSP on startup

echo 'assp_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

• Start ASSP

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/assp start

• Login to the web interface at servername:55555 or serverip:55555

• Read the configuration and documentation sections to find what settings you want to test.

ClamAV Configuration

• Enable ClamAV-clamd daemon on startup

echo 'clamav_clamd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'clamav_clamd_flags=""' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'clamav_clamd_socket="/var/run/clamav/clamd"' >> /etc/rc.conf

• Enable ClamAV-freshclam daemon on startup
  • Change the number 8 to the amount of times per day freshclam should check for updates. Must be between 1 and 50.

echo 'clamav_freshclam_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'clamav_freshclam_flags="-d -c 8"' >> /etc/rc.conf

• Start the clamd daemon

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start

• Start the freshclam daemon

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-freshclam start

• Restart ASSP

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/assp restart

• Ensure that ASSP can communicate with the clamd daemon

  Check Maillog.txt, you should see a log entry similar to this one

Feb-21-07 03:35:28 File::Scan::ClamAV module version 1.8 installed and available

Notes

• This guide assumes you are running FreeBSD 6.X