Clamav update failed

2013-02-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have been unable to update my clamav for the last three days, with this appearing in logcheck;- # Last ClamAV update process started at Fri Feb 22 23:18:44 2013 Last Status: main.cvd is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60,

Re: Clamav update failed

2013-02-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
It seems to be bad form to reply to your own email but the answer is delete/rename /var/lib/clamav/daily.cld and mirrors.dat. This forces clamav to redownload them, which should be working okay then. According to #clamav on irc.freenode.net there were some problems at clamav HQ about ten

OT: Answering your own question (Was: Clamav update failed)

2013-02-24 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:52:09 + Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to be bad form to reply to your own email but the answer is No, no, no... it's the opposite. Nice of you to share the solution, Sharon! Thank you! I think that even if you actually knew the answer

Re: OT: Answering your own question (Was: Clamav update failed)

2013-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 08:14:04PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: I think that even if you actually knew the answer before you asked, it's still better for community to pretend that you ask and answer than to keep it all to yourself. Are you serious? Imagine the thousands of posts like, What does

Re: OT: Answering your own question (Was: Clamav update failed)

2013-02-24 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:58:32 +1300 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 08:14:04PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: I think that even if you actually knew the answer before you asked, it's still better for community to pretend that you ask and answer than to