On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Simon Hobson <li...@thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Because I've several machines using it, I've setup one to act as a local > server, with the others pulling their updates from it. It's been generally > reliable for years, but since updating to 0.98.1 I'm having repeated > problems where the slaves just stop fetching updates. > > As an example, one of them as of this morning was 7 revisions out of date. > Freshclam log says : > > main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, > builder: neo) > > ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from virusdb.back.<mydomain> > > Giving up on virusdb.back.<mydomain>... > > Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in > /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf is working. Check > > http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons. > > Invariably, if I delete mirrors.dat and restart Freshclam it will then > download daily.cvd : > > main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, > builder: neo) > > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > > daily.cvd updated (version: 18725, sigs: 863475, f-level: 63, builder: > neo) > > bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 236, sigs: 43, f-level: 63, > builder: dgoddard) > > Database updated (3287743 signatures) from virusdb.back.<mydomain> (IP: > 172.nn.nn.nn) > > Systems are running Debian Wheezy and fully up to date. > > Checking the logs, I can see one system at 6:50 said : > > > ClamAV update process started at Tue Apr 1 06:50:35 2014 > > main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, > builder: neo) > > Downloading daily.cvd [100%] > > WARNING: Mirror 172.nn.nn.nn is not synchronized. > > Trying again in 5 secs... > > ClamAV update process started at Tue Apr 1 06:50:42 2014 > > main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, > builder: neo) > > WARNING: Can't download daily.cvd from virusdb.back.<mydomain> > > Trying again in 5 secs... > > And on the Apache logs of the main server, I can see daily.cvd being > fetched at 06:50 then nothing at all after that. It looks like Freshclam > just flags the mirror as bad and never checks it again. > > > Any ideas ? I suspect the fault lies in a rather small piece of code that was supposed to make the call to recv() a little more robust. If you have the ability (or desire) to compile from source, can you please try the attached patch? If the patch works, I'll integrate it into our next release. Thanks, Shawn
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