Re: [clamav-users] Why has clam started updating itself every 3 hours?

2016-03-21 Thread Dennis Peterson 

On 3/21/16 2:21 PM, Andy Keller wrote:

This is new behavior, as far as I know. We’ve not seen this sort of thing 
before. I’m noticing (via OSSEC) that our ClamAV deployments are updating 
themselves every 3 hours. This is far in excess of the cron we set up to run 
Freshclam. Any idea what could be causing this?
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Has it completed fetching the new main and daily files or is it retrying?

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Re: [clamav-users] Why has clam started updating itself every 3 hours?

2016-03-21 Thread Paul Kosinski 
Ours is looking for updates every 1.5 hours, just as the cron job says.
But there have been no new sigs from current.cvd.clamav.net since
Friday, which is somewhat worrisome.


On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:21:17 +
Andy Keller  wrote:

> This is new behavior, as far as I know. We’ve not seen this sort of
> thing before. I’m noticing (via OSSEC) that our ClamAV deployments
> are updating themselves every 3 hours. This is far in excess of the
> cron we set up to run Freshclam. Any idea what could be causing this?
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> comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq
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Re: [clamav-users] Why has clam started updating itself every 3 hours?

2016-03-21 Thread Gene Heskett 
On Monday 21 March 2016 17:21:17 Andy Keller wrote:

> This is new behavior, as far as I know. We’ve not seen this sort of
> thing before. I’m noticing (via OSSEC) that our ClamAV deployments are
> updating themselves every 3 hours. This is far in excess of the cron
> we set up to run Freshclam. Any idea what could be causing this?

Curious, I looked at my log, its doing it 4x a day, or at 6 hour 
intervals.  Is that still too many times/day?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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[clamav-users] Why has clam started updating itself every 3 hours?

2016-03-21 Thread Andy Keller 
This is new behavior, as far as I know. We’ve not seen this sort of thing 
before. I’m noticing (via OSSEC) that our ClamAV deployments are updating 
themselves every 3 hours. This is far in excess of the cron we set up to run 
Freshclam. Any idea what could be causing this?
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