Good luck!

> On Dec 2, 2021, at 13:31, novpenguincne via clamav-users 
> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> OK. It might be difficult to get the new client to run on the old o/s but 
> I'll see what I can do.
> 
> Thanks for the input!
> 
> James
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> On Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 at 12:14 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) 
> <jes...@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> —
>> 
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>>> 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
>>> 
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>>>> 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.
>>>> 
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>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>>>> 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
>>>>> 
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