Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:06:51 +0400 > Anton Yuzhaninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, Tomasz. >> >> You wrote on Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:49:04 PM: >> >>>> (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file >>>> causing it to CRASH. >>> I _doesn't_ crash. It reports a critical error and terminates. >> Why it can't work with old bases in this situation? >> If it possible it will be more better than stop working. > > freshclam already takes care to not install broken data and in this case the > "broken" db (i.e. the empty CVD file) was created by some 3rd party script and > not freshclam. >
I had this issue today, and the only thing that touches that directory is clamd and freshclam. There may be something busted in freshclam causing this but I haven't been unable to recreate it. There was a file physically called *.cvd in the directory. -- Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html