Clam Anti Virus on IBM iSeries using PASE

Introduction

Note. This HOWTO is a work in progress, and is still very incomplete...

Who should read this HOWTO

This HOWTO is intended for anyone interested in installing and using the free !ClamAV anti virus scanner on an IBM iSeries.

Disclaimer

Use this document at your own risk - no liabilty for the contents can be accepted. This document is put together from my own experience with ClamAV, and while I believe it to be accurate I can't guarantee it will work on your system.

Prerequisites

1. V5R2? or higher of OS/400. This may work at an earlier release, but that has not been tested.
2. PASE - Licensed Program 5722SS1, Option 33: OS/400 - Portable App Solutions Environment.
3. Port 80 access to the internet from your iSeries or iSeries LPAR if you wish to fetch antivirus signature updates direct from your iSeries.

Installation considerations and planning

1. All the PASE software from the Public Domain Software Library will install to /usr/local/ on your IFS. You will need write access to the /usr and /QOpenSys directories to perform the installation.
2. Software packages. These are compressed tar archives which you will need to unpack before installing. If you don't have software (gunzip) to uncompress a .Z file, then download the zipped gzip archive from the link at the end of this page. Once that is installed you can use it to unpackage all the other utilities. Download the AIX 5.1 binary version of each of these packages:
   1. ClamAV - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/clamav.html - the Clam anti virus package
   2. Curl - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/curl.html - Web retrieval utility to fetch signature updates
   3. GZip - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/gzip.html - gzip utility to unpackage tar.Z and tar.gz archives
   4. UnZip - http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/unzip.html - unzip utility for Clam to use when scanning zip files on the IFS

Installing ClamAV

1. Enter the PASE shell: CALL PGM(QP2TERM?)
2. Create the /usr/local directory if it doesn't already exist: mkdir /QOpenSys/usr/local
3. Create a symbolic link to the local directory in the root '/' directory if not present: ln -s /QOpenSys/usr/local /usr/local

Using ClamAV

Removing ClamAV

-- MartinRowe - 19 Jul 2005