update_virus_scanners

[David Jacobson]

Hi,

Perhaps try appending -x to the end of the #!/bin/bash line
in /usr/sbin/update_virus_scanners and look for any glaring
errors.

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 06:34, Dave Filchak wrote:
> 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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