On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 at 12:12:59 +0000, Jo Mills wrote: > > I have tried to use freshclam from the cvs version devel-20040127, but > after 20 minutes it times out. My job shows the following: > > > Starting the daily download of the clamAV virus databases to the > > Labserver at Wed Jan 28 11:39:26 GMT 2004 > > WARNING: Proxy settings are now only configurable in the config file.
And?... Have you configured proxy settings in the config file? ;-) > > ClamAV update process started at Wed Jan 28 11:39:26 2004 > > Connecting via proxy.littleport ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This may be the reason! > > Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK > > ERROR: Maximal time (1200 seconds) reached. > > > > Completed the daily download of the clamAV virus databases at Wed > > Jan 28 11:59:26 GMT 2004 > > > > Freshclam return value was 1 > > The Labserver is an AMD Duron box running Debian Woody. Our Internet > connection is uncontested, symmetrical at 512 Kbps. We are located > just north of Cambridge in the UK. My mirrors.txt is shown below: > > > clamav.inet6.fr > > clamav.e-admin.de > > clamav.fisher.hu > > clamav.essentkabel.com > > clamav.exsilia.net Does above make any better than the default mirrors.txt: database.clamav.net database.clamav.net database.clamav.net Oh, wait. In newer versions of Clamav, mirrors are selected in freshclam.conf (entry: DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net). > I have never known freshclam take less than 30 minutes to complete, Always more than 30 minutes on 512 Kbps link?! Something must be severely screwed up. Our mirrors infrastructure gives very good througput. I usually download databases in seconds. > sometimes it can take up to an hour! The timeout for freshclam > doesn't appear to be configurable. Any suggestions? > Try adding "-v" option. Maybe it'll show some important details. I suspect that your proxy (or settings concerning it) is the culprit. -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
