We ARE using freshclam to perform the actual update. And always have been! We've only been using curl (not wget, if that matters) to pull the first few bytes of the cvd to see if its version number matches what the DNS TXT query said.
We do this because, after the conversion to Cloudflare, we were getting lots of FAILURES where *freshclam* said things were out of sync (and eventually disabled all the mirrors). And we have recently seen that our Web server sometimes can get the new updates (from IAD) *hours* before our main LAN does (from BOS). P.S. It's been quite frustrating getting some replies seemingly based on assumptions that we are doing things we shouldn't, when we aren't in fact doing those things. (Like not using freshclam.) On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:46:42 -0800 Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote: > Exactly right. We can't be blaming the ClamAV process when we don't > use the ClamAV process. People that don't use freshclam should have > no expectation of high reliability. In fact any expectations are > baseless when the wrong tools are employed. > > dp > > On 12/9/18 5:44 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote: > > As it should be. No one should be downloading the daily and main, > > (although thousands are), cdiffs were created for a reason. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Dec 9, 2018, at 06:58, Eric Tykwinski <eric-l...@truenet.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> From back in archives, I think he’s using wget to just pull the > >> files, but freshclam would just pull the cdiffs and keep you up to > >> date on the next check. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
