update_virus_scanners

[Dave Filchak]

Thanks for your reply. Tried what you suggested and really cannot see
anything weird. It finds ClamAV installed and finds generic installed but
nothing else, which is normal.

+ SCANNERSCONF=/etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf
+ LOCKFILE=/tmp/MailScanner.autoupdate.lock
++ perl -e 'print "young" if -f "/tmp/MailScanner.autoupdate.lock" && -M
"/tmp/MailScanner.autoupdate.lock"<0.042'
+ '[' x = xyoung ']'
+ trap 'rm -f /tmp/MailScanner.autoupdate.lock' EXIT
+ touch /tmp/MailScanner.autoupdate.lock
+ umask 022
++ uname
+ OS=Linux
+ '[' Linux = SunOS ']'
+ GREP=grep
+ cat /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf
+ sed -e 's/#.*$//'
+ grep -e -wrapper

<SNIP>

+ read NAME WRAPPER PACKAGEDIR
++ echo /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper
++ sed -e 's/-wrapper$/-autoupdate/'
+ UPDATER=/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate
+ '[' -n clamav -a -n /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper -a -n /usr ']'
+ /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper /usr -IsItInstalled
+ logger -p mail.info -t update.virus.scanners Found clamav installed
+ '[' -x /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate ']'
+ logger -p mail.info -t update.virus.scanners Running autoupdate for clamav
+ /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate /usr

<SNIP>

+ read NAME WRAPPER PACKAGEDIR
++ echo /usr/lib/MailScanner/generic-wrapper
++ sed -e 's/-wrapper$/-autoupdate/'
+ UPDATER=/usr/lib/MailScanner/generic-autoupdate
+ '[' -n generic -a -n /usr/lib/MailScanner/generic-wrapper -a -n / ']'
+ /usr/lib/MailScanner/generic-wrapper / -IsItInstalled
+ logger -p mail.info -t update.virus.scanners Found generic installed
+ '[' -x /usr/lib/MailScanner/generic-autoupdate ']'
+ logger -p mail.info -t update.virus.scanners Running autoupdate for
generic
+ /usr/lib/MailScanner/generic-autoupdate /

I have edited out the non-pertinent portions. So, as far as I can tell, this
part seems fine. The only thing might be the lockfile. I do not see this
being created when this is run but it is hard to tell.

Any other ideas??

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: David Jacobson [mailto:davidj at synaq.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:49 AM
To: dfilchak at sympatico.ca
Subject: Re: update_virus_scanners

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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