On 22/03/2021 10:04, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
... what the cvdupdate method is supposed to help with. That does
NOT use the 'PrivateMirror' option with the private mirror as you
originally said it did.
I don't recall describing any use of the cvdupdate method. If I gave
the impression that I'm familiar with it (it's brand new, and I have
never used it, nor even looked at it) then it's my turn to apologize.
I said "it's a bad idea to run cvdupdate just a couple of times a day
because freshclam gets upset when the DNS doesn't match the CDIFFs
available" and you replied that you should use the "privatemirror"
configuration so it doesn't use the DNS. But all the cvdupdate
documentation says to use the standard 'databasemirror' *not*
'privatemirror' (so that Freshclam DOES download CDIFFs, to reduce
bandwidth usage - with 'privatemirror', Freshclam just downloads full CVDs)
Running cvdupdate very frequently is fine (AFAICS), because it downloads
nothing until the DNS record changes.
Maybe the misunderstanding was because I used the term 'private mirror'
(as used on the page
https://www.clamav.net/documents/private-local-mirrors ) and you assumed
I meant method (2) on that page, whereas my previous sentence had
indicated I was talking about method (3).
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