A simple solution to the database checksum failure might be as simple as changing the download procedure to:
* check for new databases * if database is new, download it TO A TEMP FILE * perform checksum on temp file * Good checksum -> install * Bad checksum -> log problem, continue with old db
As for the last step, you might want to have it immediately try again, or just try again on the next scheduled upload time.
It sounds like the current download procedure is just to download & install before doing a checksum check.
This sounds like a pretty simple change to me. Make sense?
Ted
--On Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:15 PM +0100 Brian Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ok, re-run it on my local machine and it worked fine. But it means my customers' systems will all be a day behind, as they all download at the same time (mmm - perhaps that is not a good idea).
I am not 100% happy with the situation that if a download catches an upload, then we get a failure. Perhaps freshclam should try again. I thought the 0.6 version did, but in my case (on my test server), that one apparently failed as well.
Cheers
Brian
At 12:24 01/07/2003, Diego d'Ambra wrote:It seems that you tried to download new db while I was uploading new database.
Just run fresclam again.
Best regards, Diego d'Ambra
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Read [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1. juli 2003 13:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [clamav-users] checksum failure again?
My daily update has just failed with this:
Current working dir is /usr/share/clamav Checking for a new database - started at Tue Jul 1 12:00:01 2003 Connected to clamav.elektrapro.com. Reading md5 sum (viruses.md5): OK Reading md5 sum (viruses2.md5): OK Downloading viruses.db ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ....................................... done Downloading viruses.db2 ........................................................................ ..... done ERROR: The checksum of viruses.db2 database isn't ok. Please check it yourself or try again.
This is (still) clam 0.54.
cheers
Brian
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