[clamav-users] Freshclam question

2016-07-13 Thread Paul Kosinski
Is there an easy way to get freshclam do multiple "attempts" at a lower rate than it does? I use an LAN-local server (a tiny Perl program) to redistribute signatures, and occasionally ClamAV's DNS shows that the official current version is beyond what the redistribution server has, so it generates

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-07-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 July 2015 05:27:33 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 01 July 2015 04:22:29 Al Varnell wrote: > > The default in the source code is 12 times a day. > > > > > # Number of database checks per day. > > > # Default: 12 (every two hours) > > > #Checks 24 > > > > The Troubleshooting FAQ >

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-07-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 July 2015 04:22:29 Al Varnell wrote: > The default in the source code is 12 times a day. > > > # Number of database checks per day. > > # Default: 12 (every two hours) > > #Checks 24 > > The Troubleshooting FAQ

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-07-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 July 2015 04:09:28 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 30.06.15 09:26, Gene Heskett wrote: > >While personally investigating it here, I came to > > /etc/freshclam.conf, and discovered it was checking hourly. IMO that > > is really severe abuse of a free service, so I reset it to 12x

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-07-01 Thread Al Varnell
The default in the source code is 12 times a day. > # Number of database checks per day. > # Default: 12 (every two hours) > #Checks 24 The Troubleshooting FAQ still says: > • How many times per hour shall I run

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-07-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.06.15 09:26, Gene Heskett wrote: While personally investigating it here, I came to /etc/freshclam.conf, and discovered it was checking hourly. IMO that is really severe abuse of a free service, so I reset it to 12x daily and may even set it down to 2x a day. the default seems to be 48 d

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Al Varnell
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:13 AM, Steve Basford wrote: > > On Tue, June 30, 2015 1:57 pm, Nixon, R A (AL) CIV USARMY SEC (US) wrote: >> > >> My organization has been using Freshcalm to update virus definitions for >> a number of years. We are United States based and set the database mirror >> a

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
On Jun 30, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Steve Basford mailto:steveb_cla...@sanesecurity.com>> wrote: On Tue, June 30, 2015 1:57 pm, Nixon, R A (AL) CIV USARMY SEC (US) wrote: My organization has been using Freshcalm to update virus definitions for a number of years. We are United States based and set th

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 11:57:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 June 2015 11:10:49 Benny Pedersen wrote: > > Gene Heskett skrev den 2015-06-30 15:26: > > > Do I need to restart freshclam, or whatever to bring that > > > setting in? > > > > imho its just so 2x each day you check dns for updat

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 11:10:49 Benny Pedersen wrote: > Gene Heskett skrev den 2015-06-30 15:26: > > Do I need to restart freshclam, or whatever to bring that > > setting in? > > imho its just so 2x each day you check dns for updatees, http servers > is only abused if dns says you are behind lates

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Benny Pedersen
Gene Heskett skrev den 2015-06-30 15:26: Do I need to restart freshclam, or whatever to bring that setting in? imho its just so 2x each day you check dns for updatees, http servers is only abused if dns says you are behind latest in dns yes freshclamd need to be restarted if conf are edited

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 09:13:15 Steve Basford wrote: > On Tue, June 30, 2015 1:57 pm, Nixon, R A (AL) CIV USARMY SEC (US) wrote: > > My organization has been using Freshcalm to update virus definitions > > for a number of years. We are United States based and set the > > database mirror according

Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Steve Basford
On Tue, June 30, 2015 1:57 pm, Nixon, R A (AL) CIV USARMY SEC (US) wrote: > > My organization has been using Freshcalm to update virus definitions for > a number of years. We are United States based and set the database mirror > accordingly. In the past month we have notice that the Database mirr

[clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2015-06-30 Thread Nixon, R A (AL) CIV USARMY SEC (US)
My organization has been using Freshcalm to update virus definitions for a number of years. We are United States based and set the database mirror accordingly. In the past month we have notice that the Database mirror used is now connecting us to a mirror in Russia. Within the last week our cyb

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam question

2005-02-17 Thread Allan Joergensen
Samuel Benzaquen wrote, On 17-02-2005 14:40: That said, you have to be sure that that user can log (have homedir and stuff) and run the script. Indeed, that did the trick. Thanks. -- Allan Joergensen - http://nowhere.dk/ "I will not cut corners./'' '' '' ''/'' '' '' ''" - Bart's Board _

RE: [Clamav-users] freshclam question

2005-02-17 Thread Samuel Benzaquen
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allan > Joergensen > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:16 AM > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Subject: [Clamav-users] freshclam question > > > Hi, > > in

[Clamav-users] freshclam question

2005-02-17 Thread Allan Joergensen
Hi, in order to insure that the database is always up to date I'm trying to use OnErrorExecute/OnUpdateExecute to generate alerts in our monitoring system, so far with little luck. I've tried both OnUpdateExecute logger -t . and OOnUpdateExecute /path/to/script none of them seems to work. I

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:25:43 -0800 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running clamd and freshclam as a daemon. When freshclam updates > the virus database, does it restart clamd so it see the new database, > or do I have to manually do that? Clamd is notified

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2004-11-30 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 8:25:43 -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: > I am running clamd and freshclam as a daemon. When freshclam updates > the virus database, does it restart clamd so it see the new database, No and yes. > or do I have to manually do that? No. man freshclam ; man freshclam.conf -

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2004-11-30 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:25 am, Jeff Grossman wrote: > I am running clamd and freshclam as a daemon. When freshclam updates > the virus database, does it restart clamd so it see the new database, or > do I have to manually do that? freshclam.conf: # Send the RELOAD command to clamd. # Def

[Clamav-users] Freshclam Question

2004-11-30 Thread Jeff Grossman
I am running clamd and freshclam as a daemon. When freshclam updates the virus database, does it restart clamd so it see the new database, or do I have to manually do that? Thanks, Jeff ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-user