hi, dp Do you mean there are multiple virus databases on my server? For the clamav was installed by other people, so I didn't notice it. Is it OK to delete other virus database just leave daily.inc and main.inc? Thanks
> Noel Jones wrote: >> Arnaud Jacques wrote: >>> Le vendredi 22 février 2008 00:58, David Liang a écrit : >>> >>>> Thu Feb 21 15:35:30 2008 -> clamd daemon 0.90.1 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: >>>> i386, CPU: i486) >>> Last Clamav version is 0.92.1. You should keep your Clamav package >>> up-to-date. >>> >> >> More specifically, slow loading is a known problem with clamav >> 0.90.x. >> >> The *only* fix is to upgrade to the current 0.92.1 version. >> >> > > While that is a good policy it does not explain why his system changed > from one day to the next. I anticipated there were multiple copies of > the database and there is (all systems are vulnerable to this non-bug) > and I suspect further there are two freshclam installations, or perhaps > two freshclam.conf files being used inadvertently, that are downloading > database files - one using scripted updates, the other not. Since there > are both versions on his system and of recent date, this seems like a > plausible cause of his overnight change. > > It is helpful to know too that upgrading to 0.92.1 will not correct the > mess in his database directory. > > dp > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html