Before I respond I think I should describe my role in this community. I provide uncompensated tech support on the ClamXav forum, so I attempt to keep my system configured as close to defaults as possible, since that's what most users do.
On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Jim Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > I do see your concern if as your log shows you are only checking twice a > day.... Missing an update extends the stale db quite a bit. > > Three questions; > > Do you have both of these lines in your freshclam.conf? > DatabaseMirror db.us.clamav.net > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net > > What is your max retry before failure? Default is 3 Yes to all three, but most of the users I assist do not update the country code. > How many updates are you making? Default in freshclam says it is every 2 > hours or 12/day but ..... you do not seem to be making that many based on > your log posting. Just two, but that actually more than meets my needs. Most ClamXav users update as needed or once a day, at most. I do help a few sysadmins with critical server responsibilities who require 12 or more updates a day, however. One of them reported 30 failures involving this server in a 24-hour period involving multiple machines. > Right / wrong / or indifferent, I am running freshclam once an hour off the > hour. I am doing this via a cron task and select the execution minute. To > help reduce load, I do not run it on the hour but have selected sometime > after the hour. ClamXav just switch from using cron to lauchd, which has been the preferred method for event scheduling in Mac OS X for some time. So right now I have one event scheduled by launchd and a legacy event using cron to troubleshoot various issues concerning both. Appreciate the input, but the issue I am trying to solve here is simply to improve the reliability of the CVD mirror network for US users. Sent from Janet's iPad -Al- -- Al Varnell _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
