Noel Jones wrote: > At 02:20 PM 7/13/2007, Roberto Ullfig wrote: >> I just upgraded to 0.91 on 23 linux servers. They should all look the >> same but 3 of them are using the old cvd files (daily.cvd and main.cvd) >> while the other 20 are using the new .inc directories. It's probably >> been like this prior to 0.91. I'd like to get them all the same. I tried >> deleting the cvd files and creating .inc directories but it doesn't like >> that and creates the cvd files anyway. What is creating the cvd files >> (as opposed to .inc directories) and why do these three servers act >> differently. Same freshclam.conf file and same clamd.conf file >> everywhere - installed from same directory, etc.... Are they perhaps >> contacting different db servers? > > The first time the virus database is loaded (or when replacing a > corrupted database) the .cvd is used. When subsequent scripted > updates are applied, the .cvd is unpacked into an .inc directory and > the updates are applied therein. Versions prior to 0.90 always used > the .cvd because they didn't support scripted updates and the .inc > directory structure. > > Your servers that just have a .cvd likely already had the current > daily.cvd before they were upgraded. A .inc directory should be > created automatically next time a scripted update is applied. Any > attempt to "force" creation of a .inc directory is unlikely to be successful. > > Strange, I run a script called hourly by cron and here is a snippet of what I have in /var/lib/clamav on one of my servers:
drwxr-xr-x 2 amavis amavis 4096 2007-07-13 13:15 daily.inc -rw-r--r-- 1 amavis amavis 9351789 2007-06-12 17:11 main.cvd -rw------- 1 amavis amavis 1352 2007-07-13 13:07 mirrors.dat As you can see, this particular server has one of each (daily.inc & main.cvd). I have no idea why this is, since my other servers have daily.inc and main.inc. The server that has main.cvd is running Fedora 7 and ClamAV 0.91. uname -a Linux mail.inetmsg.com 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 15:37:31 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux which clamd /usr/local/sbin/clamd /usr/local/sbin/clamd -V ClamAV 0.91/3663/Fri Jul 13 12:16:34 2007 Bill _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
