No need to repack daily.cvd. You can if you want to but you don't have to. - Alain
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Arthur Snyder <snyd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thank you. That helps. Do I need to repack the daily.cvd after applying > the cdiff before placing it in /var/lib/clamav? If so, will it still work > since I cannot sign it with a clamav cert? > > Art > > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 4/28/14, Shawn Webb <sw...@sourcefire.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Manual cdiff update > To: "ClamAV users ML" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> > Date: Monday, April 28, 2014, 2:48 PM > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at > 8:20 PM, Arthur Snyder <snyd...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > I am trying to > manually update a daily.cvd file with a daily-xx.cdiff > > file. I know I can just > download the latest daily.cvd. I know I can just > > run freshclam and update. That is not > the point. > > > > I run > sigtool --verify-cdiff daily-xxx.cdiff daily.cvd and it > states the > > cdiff file correctly > applies. However, if I run sigtool --run-cdiff > > daily-xxx.cdiff it states can't open > file daily.info for reading. I have > > > run the commands on relatively fresh daily.cvd files so I > know the file it > > good. I run sigtool > -i daily.cvd and it validates the file. daily.cvd and > > daily-xxx.cdiff are in the same directory > and I execute sigtool from the > > same > directory. Permissions are set correctly and it does not > matter if I > > run the sigtool command as > root or not. It is as if the run option cannot > > locate the daily.cvd file whereas the > verify function has the daily.cvd > > file > specified. It seems simple. What am I missing? Thank > you for the > > help. > > > > Hey > Arthur, > > Before you apply a > cdiff, you have to unpack the database for which it > applies into a directory. You can follow this > procedure to manually apply a > cdiff to daily > (and adopt it to your circumstances, of course): > > 1. mkdir /tmp/cvd > 2. cd /tmp/cvd > 3. sigtool > --unpack-current=daily > 4. sigtool > --apply-cdiff=/path/to/downloaded/cdiff > > If you have any further questions, comments, or > concerns, please let me > know. > > Thanks, > > Shawn > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
