Clamav update problems, mirrors?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, James Fagan wrote:

>
> I have seen that message "ClamAV update warning: ERROR: Mirrors are not
> fully synchronized. Please try again later." in my logs but only once
> yesterday. The next message 2 minutes later indicated that ClamAV did
> update. A little odd. What happens if you run 'freshclam' ?

Here is what happened when I ran freshclam by hand:

> freshclam -v
Current working dir is /opt/clamav-0.86.2/share/clamav
Max retries == 3
ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 23 13:12:01 2005
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 900
Software version from DNS: 0.86.2
main.cvd version from DNS: 33
main.cvd is up to date (version: 33, sigs: 36102, f-level: 5, builder: tkojm)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 1036
Retrieving http://db.us.clamav.net/daily.cvd
Downloading daily.cvd [*]
ERROR: Mirrors are not fully synchronized. Please try again later.
Trying again in 5 secs...
ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 23 13:12:10 2005
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 891
Software version from DNS: 0.86.2
main.cvd version from DNS: 33
main.cvd is up to date (version: 33, sigs: 36102, f-level: 5, builder: tkojm)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 1036
Retrieving http://db.us.clamav.net/daily.cvd
Downloading daily.cvd [*]
ERROR: Mirrors are not fully synchronized. Please try again later.
Trying again in 5 secs...
ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 23 13:12:15 2005
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 886
Software version from DNS: 0.86.2
main.cvd version from DNS: 33
main.cvd is up to date (version: 33, sigs: 36102, f-level: 5, builder: tkojm)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 1036
Retrieving http://db.us.clamav.net/daily.cvd
Downloading daily.cvd [*]
ERROR: Mirrors are not fully synchronized. Please try again later.
Giving up on db.us.clamav.net...
ClamAV update process started at Tue Aug 23 13:12:16 2005
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 885
Software version from DNS: 0.86.2
main.cvd version from DNS: 33
main.cvd is up to date (version: 33, sigs: 36102, f-level: 5, builder: tkojm)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 1036
Retrieving http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
Downloading daily.cvd [*]
daily.cvd updated (version: 1036, sigs: 3290, f-level: 5, builder: arnaud)
Database updated (39392 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 84.18.202.162)
Freeing option list...done

It takes all three retries to succeed.  Julian, is there some tweakable
setting for max retries, or does MailScanner use whatever is set in 
the freshclam.conf file?

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

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