Something happened Aug. 17, that's certain. From the test you made, which discards network problems, and this there seems to be something else. Is freshclam running from cron or as a daemon?
Fails with both
Correct user and permissions? Non full filesystem? both /tmp and where the database resides /usr/share/clamav ... 1. freshclam -v and if that didn't update the database (if needed), then 2. freshclam --debug
# freshclam --debug -v Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav Max retries == 3 ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 22 08:41:31 2006 Querying current.cvd.clamav.net TTL: 894 Software version from DNS: 0.88.4 main.cvd version from DNS: 40 Retrieving http://db.au.clamav.net/main.cvd Downloading main.cvd [*] LibClamAV debug: MD5(.tar.gz) = a9a400e70dcbfe2c9e11d78416e1c0cc LibClamAV debug: Decoded signature: a9a400e70dcbfe2c9e11d78416e1c0cc LibClamAV debug: Digital signature is correct. ERROR: Mirrors are not fully synchronized. Please try again later. Trying again in 5 secs... ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 22 08:43:19 2006 Querying current.cvd.clamav.net TTL: 787 Software version from DNS: 0.88.4 Maybe this helps. Gotta run to work. Will address other questions later. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
