On 2/12/13 4:55 PM, "Mark Foster" wrote: > Greetings, > > I frequently see errors such as this from several of our ClamAV installations. > Pretty much every time I go to check manually (freshclam runs from cron, so I > get the errors via email) there's no update available / freshclam works fine. > > So why would I get: > > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download bytecode-YYY.cdiff from db.x.clamav.net > Haven't seen any of those in my log that goes back to November, but I have had a couple with regard to daily-xxxxx.cdiff.
> Does this mean we are seeing out-of-date mirrors? Because i'm seeing this > frequently from several different parts of the world. > That's one explanation. I should think it could be almost any server issue or even temporary network issues. I would expect there to be some increase in out-of-dates due to there being many more updates per day than there used to be. I'm in the US on the West coast and update a minimum of twice a day. > Can freshclam be configured to try multiple mirrors and suppress the error > unless none of the mirrors work? > It does try multiple mirrors, and why do you need the warning (not an error) suppressed? Here's one example: WARNING: getfile: daily-15612.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 194.47.250.218) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-15612.cdiff from database.clamav.net Downloading daily-15612.cdiff [100%] Downloading daily-15613.cdiff [100%] daily.cld updated (version: 15613, sigs: 286256, f-level: 63, builder: guitar) bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 202, sigs: 40, f-level: 63, builder: neo) Database updated (1330683 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 207.57.106.31) -Al- -- Al Varnell Mountain View, CA _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
