Dennis Peterson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> Why do you suppose this is happening? >>> >> Some long shot ideas... >> >> Two freshclam processes updating different definition databases? >> >> An errant crontab entry running freshclam to different definition >> databases? >> >> Steven > > No - just one script that is called from cron and it has an exclusivity > loop that looks for previous instances (hung processes or what ever) and > send an email if they are found and then dies. Only one freshclam.conf > file on the system, only one location where files are placed. > > But - the earlier files were downloaded by 0.93 and the later files were > downloaded by 0.93.1 RC1. The dupes stopped at 7268 and above. > > All cron processes call the executables by full path so nothing is left > to chance. All older processes were killed before upgrading ClamAV, all > components of the earlier version were removed before installing the > newer RC version. > > It didn't hurt anything, no carbon was created or destroyed, so it was > at least an earth friendly error :) and for now it seems to have > stopped. I'm going to dig deeper into the log and see if there is any > other pattern that turns up. > > dp > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
I noticed this too after installing 0.93.1rc1. Apparently this version installs its own included daily.cvd, (and main.cvd) which is then updated the next time freshclam runs. Everything looks normal, no duplicate daily.* files as happened with some prior version upgrades. It seems a waste of bandwidth to copy the bundled file and then update it when a perfectly good and newer version is in place already... But the upgrade worked without me having to remove old files or mess with it any beyond "make install", so maybe it's a good thing. -- Noel Jones _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
