Hallo John,

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:19:04AM -0700, John Rudd wrote:
> >
> >I have this in /var/lib/clamav at the moment:
> >
> >  drwxr-xr-x  2 clamav clamav    4096 2007-07-12 14:22 
> >  clamav-29a2fe02977a1d4c26abf3fd199d1e70
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav  995915 2007-07-11 22:48 daily.cvd
> >  -rwxrwxr--  1 clamav clamav       0 2007-07-12 14:15 .dbLock
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav 9351789 2007-07-11 22:48 main.cvd
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav  294979 2007-07-12 15:05 MSRBL-Images.hdb
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav  228436 2007-07-12 15:05 MSRBL-SPAM.ndb
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav  180868 2007-07-12 10:26 phish.ndb.gz
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav  115449 2007-07-12 10:26 scam.ndb.gz
> 
> 
> Those are the ones you're getting from Sanesecurity.  They're gzipped. 
> In order to actually have ClamAV _USE_ them, you need to gunzip them.

Thanks. That is what I was not sure of.

> 
> This also make me wonder if you're actually testing the files before you 
> put them into production.  If you're not, that's a rather bad idea.  At 
> 2am this morning, I had a non-usable phish.ndb come through.  If you're 
> using clamd, that could have caused clamd to crash.
> 
> 
> Here's the script I use for importing from MSRBL and Sanesecurity.  I 
> run it out of cron with -all, on the hour.  You'll probably need to 
> modify some bits of the first few lines (down to the rsync binary location):

The script I have downloaded also do some testing.  I think
the reason why those files were not unzipped was that the script was
looking for the unzipped files before finishing it's task.

It is working now and I like it.

Regards
Johann
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