Hi Dennis, Thanks again for your answer. I just checked and clamav can read the main.cvd and the daily.cvd. It cannot write. I hope that's what you meant. Otherwise, when I tried a manual update. I did what follows but, as you can see, to no avail:
user@virus:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam stop [ ok ] Stopping clamav-freshclam (via systemctl): clamav-freshclam.service. user@virus:~$ sudo freshclam ClamAV update process started at Fri Dec 15 11:46:39 2017 main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd WARNING: Can't download daily.cvd from db.local.clamav.net Trying again in 5 secs... ... ClamAV update process started at Fri Dec 15 11:47:07 2017 main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net Giving up on database.clamav.net... 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/doc/mirrors-faq.html for possible reasons. I don't know what to do here. Best regards, George 2017-12-14 18:53 GMT+02:00 Dennis Peterson <[email protected]>: > Did you make sure permissions are set so that the clam user can read them? > > > > On 12/14/17 8:49 AM, George wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I mistakingly copied this twice in the email. But I did it as in your >> reply. that's not the problem. >> >> Thanks, >> George >> >> 2017-12-14 18:39 GMT+02:00 Dennis Peterson <[email protected]>: >> >> you are downloading main.cvd twice. Change one of the wget commands to >>> download daily.cvd. >>> >>> Example: >>> >>> wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd >>> sudo cp main.cvd /var/lib/clamav >>> wget database.clamav.net/daily.cvd >>> sudo cp daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav >>> >>> >>> dp >>> >>> On 12/14/17 8:28 AM, George wrote: >>> >>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> I am still getting the message that my database is more than 7 days >>>> old. I >>>> successfully downloaded and updated main.cvd and daily.cvd manually, as >>>> follows: >>>> >>>> wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd >>>> sudo cp main.cvd /var/lib/clamav >>>> wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd >>>> sudo cp daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> clamav-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users >>> >>> >>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >>> >>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> clamav-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users >> >> >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >> >> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
