On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:57:29PM +0300, Arkady V.Belousov said: > Hi! > > I'm new to clamav and have dumb questions (don't know where else search > answers for them): > > - how ClamAV virus base files are related? For example, Dr.Web contains one > big base (drwebase.vdb), which is distributed along with newer Dr.Web > versions, and small (5-20k each) weekly add-ons (drwVVVNN.vdb, where VVVNN > is number, specific for each add-on), which placed to Dr.Web' directory > with bases. (Dr.Web itself searches .vdb files and loads only those, which > are newer, than main base.) How builded ClamAV bases and which files/names > used for this?
There is a main.db and a daily.db. Every so often, signatures from daily.db are pushed into main.db. > - how to receive updates (beside online access through internet) for ClamAV > virus bases and how they are big? For example, Dr.Web updates are so > small, that they are easily downloadable through different sources and > there even was service from DialogNauka, which sends updates through > email. Most of the time the updates are only to daily.db, and it is fairly small (175K here). There does not seem to be a way around getting them from the mirrors, at least at some point in the chain - it would be trivial to fetch, put on some medium, and carry them over to the machines in question, though, if you prefer that. > - (my friend asks) Is there possible to configure downloading/updating bases > through specific places? For example, he updates ClamAV bases on the LAN > server and ClamAV on client machines updates itself from this server? If > this is not possible with built-in tools of ClamAV, how you recommend to > resolve this task? Yes - have the LAN server update from the regular mirrors, and have all the other clients update from the LAN server. Just put up a website, and put the files in the document root of that server. Or at least that is my understanding of the structure of the mirrors - perhaps someone here who runs one can comment better? > PS: I myself use Win9x (yet) with no online. > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Kaufman's First Law of Party Physics: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Population density is inversely | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | proportional to the square of the | | | distance from the keg. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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