On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 16:38 -0700, Al Varnell wrote: > On Jul 3, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Chris <cpoll...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > > > It's been awhile since I used ClamAv wasn't there something one time > > about using either one or the other of the two databases listed above? > > They are supposed to be identical, so yes you would use one or the other. > daily.cvd is a compressed file and cld is not. > > > I had restarted awhile ago and got this warning: > > > > Starting Clam AntiVirus Daemon: LibClamAV Warning: > > ************************************************** > > LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days! *** > > LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible. *** > > LibClamAV Warning: ************************************************** > > > > I downloaded the daily.cvd and the error went away. > > Are you not running freshclam periodically to keep daily.cld up-to-date? > Update files are normally available several times a day. freshclam will > check to see if there have been any updates posted since the last check, then > download daily.diff files, decompress daily.cvd if necessary and integrate > them resulting in daily.cld. If for some reason it is unable to obtain the > .diff files then it will download a new, updated daily.cvd for you. > > > -Al-
Freshclam runs every 4hrs Al, I was just curious as I thought there was something about the two dbs back when I was building my own RPMS. Those got removed and I installed from source this time, much easier. Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11°N 97.89°W (Elev. 1092 ft) 19:20:49 up 8 days, 1:49, 2 users, load average: 0.59, 0.91, 0.90 Mandriva Linux 2010.2, kernel 2.6.33.7-desktop586-2mnb _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
