The oldest version that is currently supported is the 0.101.x line, but that will be EOL in January. So I would recommend 0.103.x or higher.
— Sent from my iPad > On Dec 2, 2021, at 13:10, novpenguincne via clamav-users > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote: > > Thank you for the quick response. So that would lead into the logical next > question. What would be the earliest client version that would work? I > tried installing the 103.x client on that box but 103.x requires SystemD and > this older box is still using SystemV. So is there a version of the client > that is new enough to accept the new definition files but still old enough to > install on a SystemV-based o/s? > > James > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > >> On Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 at 10:49 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) >> <jes...@cisco.com> wrote: >> >> James, >> >> Thanks for your email. ClamAV definitions won’t even work on those older >> versions anymore. The Flevel for the main.cvd and daily.cvd are now set >> higher than that, so those systems shouldn’t be able to load the newer >> definitions. >> >> — >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>>> On Dec 2, 2021, at 11:08, novpenguincne via clamav-users >>>> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net wrote: >>> >>> To facilitate bandwidth issues, I've set up an internal clam proxy server >>> on SLES15 running the 103.x client. I have successfully connected to it >>> using a different SLES15 box also running the 103.x client and downloaded >>> updates to it. >>> >>> However, I still have an older SLES11 box running the 98.x client. Due to >>> extenuating circumstances, this box is not a candidate for an o/s upgrade. >>> I also know from CLAM documentation that clients older than 100.x are no >>> longer supported. But I would still like to have some a/v on this box until >>> its retirement so I was trying to have it download from the proxy server as >>> well. >>> >>> When I first attempted, it failed because it was trying to download >>> main.cld which didn't exist on the proxy. So I turned off "scripted >>> updates" on both the proxy and the target SLES11 box which is now forcing >>> everything to use cvd files only. But now when I run freshclam on the >>> SLES11 box, I'm getting different errors. It downloads the daily.cvd >>> successfully. Then it tries to load signatures from daily.cvd. And then I >>> get a sequence of errors: >>> >>> ERROR: During database Load >>> >>> WARNING: [LibClamAV] cli_ac_addsig: Signature for >>> Win.Backdoor.SystemBC-9885562-0 is too short >>> >>> ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database >>> >>> WARNING: Database load exited with status 55 >>> >>> ERROR: Failed to load new database >>> >>> Do I need to make a change in the freshclam.conf to get this to work? Or is >>> it a matter of the 98.x client unable to read datafiles designed for 103.x >>> clients? >>> >>> James >>> >>> clamav-users mailing list >>> >>> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net >>> >>> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users >>> >>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >>> >>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >>> >>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
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