See Private Local Mirrors: <http://www.clamav.net/doc/mirrors-private.html>.
-Al- On Jul 22, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Phil Dumont wrote: > I'm considering using clamav on a machine that is not (can not be) on the > network (any network, not even a local one). > > I have a few ideas for how to get virus definition updates onto the > machine, but none of them is quite perfect. > > All of them start with getting on an online computer and pulling the .cvd > files (main, daily, bytecode) off the net and onto on optical disk, then > sticking that disk into the offline machine. > > Then what? > > I'd like to use freshclam, just because that's the "official" way to do it. > > I get that I can add some DatabaseCustomURL directives to my > freshclam.conf, with file URLs that just point directly to wherever the > optical disk will be mounted. That works. > > The part I haven't figured out yet is if there is any way to get freshclam > *not* to go out on the web to verify the databases. > > As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell it to just skip that step, > which is what I would prefer. > > Alternatively, is there any way to make it do it locally? > > There's PrivateMirror, which would be fine if it's value could be a file > URL, but it seems to want a host name to build an http URL out of. Which > means, for my offline computer, I have to have at least loopback networking > runnng, and an HTTP server, which I'd rather not do. > > I could just let freshclam try and fail to verify the databases. But that > makes the command take longer than it should while waiting for the http > attempts to time out, and clutters the logs with unsightly error messages. > > The only other alternative I can think of is to use cp or rsync or some > such to copy the .cvd files from the optical disk to /var/lib/clamav "by > hand". This avoids unsightly error messages in the log, but that's because > it doesn't put *anything* in the logs. Which is unfortunate, because I'd > like to have a record of when the updates were done. I suppose I could > right my own script that copies the databases into place *and* logs the > fact. > > Any input? _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
