Clamav update problems, mirrors?

[James Fagan]

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> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
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> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, James Fagan wrote:
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> >>
> >> 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
> >
> > ...SNIP...
> > 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?
> 
> It just uses whatever is in freshclam.conf, there's nothing 
> fancy in the autoupdate script.
> 
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Jeff,

You may be stuck and retrieving using the same mirror somehow. In your
case, it updates but only from:

==============================================================
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
==============================================================


That is using the last mirror (last resort and not recommended according
to ClamAV) instead of the db.US.clamav.net. However, there is a list of
of the mirrors on http://www.clamav.net/mirrors.html . I commented out
the other DatabaseMirror entries and added one from the list in the USA,
it seemed to work fine and I was able to retrieve an update after I
moved the dail.cvd.  Might be handy to have a little list of the other
US mirrors incase you get stuck. Of cource I have no idea how often
those mirrors change. Just an idea. 

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