update_virus_scanners
David Jacobson
davidj at synaq.com
Tue Oct 26 15:03:26 IST 2004
Hi,
Does "perl -w /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate" show any errors?
Also what are your /tmp directory permissions? (Should be 1777) you can
see this by issuing "stat /tmp"
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:10, Dave Filchak wrote:
> 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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>
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