Hang on, did you just say that clamav doesn’t have write permissions to the databases? That /would/ explain why freshclam can’t save the new database files.
Micah Snyder Software Engineer Talos Cisco Systems, Inc. On Dec 15, 2017, at 4:52 AM, George <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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<http://db.local.clamav.net> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<http://db.local.clamav.net> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<http://db.local.clamav.net> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<http://db.local.clamav.net> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<http://db.local.clamav.net> WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd WARNING: Can't download daily.cvd from db.local.clamav.net<http://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<http://database.clamav.net> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net<http://database.clamav.net> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net<http://database.clamav.net> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net<http://database.clamav.net> ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net<http://database.clamav.net> WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net<http://database.clamav.net> Giving up on database.clamav.net<http://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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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<http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd> sudo cp main.cvd /var/lib/clamav wget database.clamav.net/daily.cvd<http://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<http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd> sudo cp main.cvd /var/lib/clamav wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd<http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd> sudo cp daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
