On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:51:22 -0400
Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:20:52 +0200
> Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm running clamav 0.90 on linux and i've been running freshclam once
> > a day. Some days ago the clamd stopped working due to a missing
> > database. I found out that it was freshclam that destroyed the
> > database. After running freshclam the /var/lib/clamav directory looks
> > like this: *.cvd daily.inc main.inc mirrors.dat
> >
> > What's up with the *.cvd? How is it possible that updating the virus
> > database can detroy everything?
> >
> > Please help?
> >
> > B. regards,
> > Thomas
>
> That problem has been reported already. I experienced it myself. To
> correct it, I shut down clamav and freshclam, deleted the entire
> contents of the directory and then restarted clamav and freshclam. That
> took care of everything. I am not sure if an official fix has been
> released however.
The problem is not of clamav or freshclam's making.
It's a the freshclam datadase directory cleanup script that sits
in /etc/cron.daily where if there is no .cvd file in the database
directory (usually /var/lib/clamav) a file named *.cvd is put there.
There is a fix for this if you look further up this list you will find
a post containing alternative code. I think this has now made it into
the FC rpms, although I'm not absolutely certain.
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