On 10/25/10 3:30 PM, "Chris" <cpoll...@embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Knowing that 96.4 was coming out today I expected to see this:
> 
> Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> localhost freshclam[20815]: Local version: 0.96.3 Recommended version:
> 0.96.4
> 
> However, in the next hourly syslog snippet and ever since then the
> warning has disappeared. Didn't the warning used to appear each time
> freshclam was run until clam was updated?
>
Slightly different situation, but in a related question back in August the
answer was:

> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam does not warn any more when clamav
> update is available
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:00:28 +0200
> Philippe Camps <philippe.ca...@impmc.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> Since the update to clamav 0.96.1, freshclam does not warn me when a
>> new version is available.
> 
> freshclam warns in two cases:
> - "warn" bit set in DNS record, usually for security updates, not the
> case for 0.96.2 
> - if CVD's functionality level is higher, not the case for 0.96.2
> 
So maybe what you saw was in error.


-Al-
 
-- 
Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA



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