update_virus_scanners

[Dave Filchak]

OK .. I have managed to confuse the hell out of myself and really could use
someone to put me out of my misery. I have just updated one of my servers to
Mail::ClamAV 0.12 and MailScanner 4.35.5. After a bit of fiddling that went
OK. However, while I was doing that, I decided to again tackle the
update_virus_scanners issue I have been having in that I keep getting an
error like the following when I run or cron runs update_virus_scanners:

Oct 26 00:00:21 ebony update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
Oct 26 00:00:21 ebony update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for clamav
Oct 26 00:00:21 ebony ClamAV-autoupdate[13664]: ClamAV updater failed

However, if I run freshclam -v I get:

Current working dir is /usr/local/share/clamav
Max retries == 3
ClamAV update process started at Tue Oct 26 00:01:13 2004
Connected to database.clamav.net (65.110.48.11).
Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK
main.cvd is up to date (version: 27, sigs: 23982, f-level: 2, builder:
tomek)
Connected to database.clamav.net (65.110.48.11).
Reading CVD header (daily.cvd): OK
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 550, sigs: 1607, f-level: 3, builder:
trog)
Freeing option list...done

Finally, if I run /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate I get:

Oct 26 00:03:29 ebony ClamAV-autoupdate[14073]: ClamAV did not need updating

in my maillog. Also, in clamav-autoupdate, I have changed the log directory
to /var/log/clamav/ClamAV.update.log and in there I get:

ClamAV update process started at Tue Oct 26 00:03:28 2004
main.cvd is up to date (version: 27, sigs: 23982, f-level: 2, builder:
tomek)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 550, sigs: 1607, f-level: 3, builder:
trog)

So, apparently /etc/cron.hourly/update_virus_scanners if not working and
also apparently, I am too dull to figure out why.

Can someone PLEASE help me out and tell me what they think is going on here?
I know it is probably stupid of me but sometimes you just gotta throw your
hands in the air and yell for help.

Dave

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