> Try adding "-v" option. Maybe it'll show some important details. > > I suspect that your proxy (or settings concerning it) is the > culprit.
Tomasz, Thanks for the reply. I tidied up my freshclam script so that it wasn't passing the "http-proxy" parameter. I then re-ran it with the -v option as suggested. The output from freshclam Starting the daily download of the clamAV virus databases to the Labserver at Thu Jan 29 09:05:03 GMT 2004 Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 3 ClamAV update process started at Thu Jan 29 09:05:03 2004 Connecting via proxy.littleport Connected to database.clamav.net (172.31.2.2). Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK ERROR: Maximal time (1200 seconds) reached. Completed the daily download of the clamAV virus databases at Thu Jan 29 09:25:03 GMT 2004 appears quickly. After a few seconds the [\] display stops whirling around and thats it. It makes no difference if I use the French mirror. The freshclam process is just sleeping, (STAT "S", no CPU usage and no Memory usage) after its initial burst of activity. Normal downloads from the Net are quick, but our proxy is a Novel box configured and controlled by the main IT dept. Until I build a replacement Debian box I have no control over what it is doing or how it is configured. But why could "ordinary" downloads be quick and yet clam database downloads seem to hang somewhere? Thanks for your help, Regards, Jo. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
