Re: Re[4]: [vps-mail] WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately !

["Bennett Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, October 31, 2004 2:58 am, Abigail Marshall said:
>> How are you doing your freshclam update in cron? Mine has
>> never worked, and trying to tie into the sj securesites
>> servers constantly fails.
>
> I just have this line in my crontab:
>
> ## run freshclam twice daily
> 2 */12 * * * clamav /usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet

I've been running freshclam as a daemon for awhile now. (I.e., I no longer
put a freshclam entry in crontab.)

You can start freshclam as a daemon with a command something like:

# freshclam --daemon --checks=12

issued from the command line. It will check the virus signatures 12 times
every 24 hours (every two hours).

I found instructions for installing clamav from ports at:
http://www.technoids.org/clamav-milter.html . That document is a bit
out-of-date now, but it's still helpful. (It also tells how to run
freshclam as a daemon rather than from cron, if you're interested ...)

You said earlier that you don't install clamav from ports. I just upgraded
mine from ports, and it seems to work fine. I *did* change one step from
the steps listed in perlcode.org:

Instead of "make install" (following "make deinstall"), I used the command
"make reinstall".

Good luck!

-Ben

>
>
> -Abigail
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Abigail Marshall
>> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 8:47 PM
>> To: Steve Yates
>> Cc: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re[2]: [vps-mail] WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED
>> -
>> please update immediately !
>
>>> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:44:49 -0500
>>> "Look At SomethingCool.com" <look@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>> When will vinstall be updated?
>
>>>         The vinstall on the VPS2 platform automatically finds,
>>> downloads, and installs v0.80 regardless of the marker in the vinstall.
>
>
>>>  - Steve Yates
>
>
>> Steve, I've run the vinstall - and it appears that ClamAV is still
>> running,
>> updating, and stopping viruses -- BUT I still get the error message in
>> my
>> freshclam.log :
>
>> ClamAV update process started at Sat Oct 30 12:02:06 2004 main.cvd is up
>> to
>> date (version: 27, sigs: 23982, f-level: 2, builder: tomek) daily.cvd
>> updated (version: 565, sigs: 2021, f-level: 3, builder: ccordes)
>> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update
>> immediately !
>> WARNING: Current functionality level = 2, required = 3 Database updated
>> (26003 signatures) from database.clamav.net (213.73.255.243).
>
>
>> Going back over my logs I can see that this message started appearing on
>> October 18; running the vinstall has not resulted in any changes as far
>> as
>> the message is concerned.
>
>> -Abigail
>
>
>
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