My mistake, clamav has both rw permissions. Thanks! user@virus:~$ ls -la /var/lib/clamav total 215016 drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 dec 15 18:25 . drwxr-xr-x 82 root root 4096 sep 2 16:09 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 766976 nov 3 20:34 bytecode.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 42567087 dec 6 19:53 daily.cvd -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 117892267 dec 6 18:56 main.cvd -rw------- 1 clamav clamav 104 dec 15 18:25 mirrors.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 58927418 nov 3 20:34 safebrowsing.cvd
2017-12-15 16:27 GMT+02:00 Micah Snyder (micasnyd) <[email protected]>: > 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:de > [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:de > [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 > _______________________________________________ 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
