On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 at 13:49:02 -0600, Steve Lenti wrote:
> For the last few days I have been getting a freshclam error when trying
> to update.  I downloaded the newest version, compiled, and installed but
> am still having the same problems.  The error I am getting is as
> follows:
> 
> Checking for new database - started at Wed Jun 30 14:50:14 2004
> Calculating MD5(viruses.db)... 038b0d2e79bda7688eca397c6f34bd1e
> Connecting to www.mat.uni.torun.pl
> Connecting to www.konarski.edu.pl

Veeery old setting.

> Reading md5 sum of database from www.konarski.edu.pl : OK
> Opening /dev/urandom.
> Generated temporary name ./74fdc0ab5f5b00d2
> Downloading database from www.mat.uni.torun.pl  done
> Calculating MD5(./74fdc0ab5f5b00d2)... 9a26fda427d7bbc917fa5210f20d78c0
> ERROR: The checksum of downloaded database isn't ok. Please check it
> yourself or try again.
> Freeing option list... done
> Memory freed. Exit code: 54
> 
> I have tried adjusting the DatabaseMirror setting in the freshclam.conf
> but it always uses these same 2 addresses.  I'm thinking that somehow
> one of the sources didn't get updated correctly, but how do I force
> freshclam to obtain the updates from another server.
> 

So probably your freshclam doesn't use the freshclam.conf you edited.
Maybe you have some older freshclam left from old installation (or other
clamav-related files anyway).
Try to find such files and remove them.

Tip: what happens when you run freshclam calling it with the full path
name?

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