Hi Giampaolo,
I yet used ftp method in order to get files but I'm not an expertise on
claimAV than I don't know if I downloaded the correct file. I performed a
login on the server via anonymous ftp and I download this file

-rw-r--r--   1 clamav    clamav     29396329 Mar 24 15:58 safebrowsing.cvd

I can use it as a main.cvd file? In whitch path I have to put it? 

Thanks
Paolo

-----Original Message-----
From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net
[mailto:clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net]on Behalf Of Dennis
Peterson
Sent: mercoledi 24 marzo 2010 16.02
To: ClamAV users ML
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] infos


On 3/24/10 7:31 AM, Del Monte Paolo wrote:
> Hi Giampaolo,
> Are you sure that I can download the upgrade from a window server and put
it
> in a second time on a hpux server. The automatic upgrade don't depend on
the
> platform on witch I configure freshclam?
>

The clam scanners (clamd, clamscan) don't care how the signatures arrive in
the 
signature directory, they will simply use what ever you put there. How you
put 
it there is up to you. The default method is to use freshclam, but you can
use 
ftp, scp, rcp, rsync, cp, and mv.

You should avoid transferring the signature files directly into the working 
directory from a remote system as the transfer is not instantaneous, and for
the 
period of time it takes to transfer the signatures, they will appear to the 
scanners as being broken. So use rsync if possible, or transfer the
signatures 
to the target system but to a temporary directory and then move/copy them to
the 
final destination.

I prefer rsync as it comes close to doing atomic moves between systems - the

incoming file is hidden until it is completely transfered, and then it is 
renamed and as such appears "instantly". Google 'atomic file operations' to 
learn more.

If you are running clamd then you can signal it that a new signature has
arrived 
and that it can load and use it immediately. Or you can let it find it on
its 
own schedule.

dp
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