Hi I'm getting a warning from the monitor page that my ClamAV protection is outdated. When I look at how the clamfresh is updating my definitions, it shows it running as a daemon with this command: "/usr/sbin/freshclam -d --quiet" However, the freshclam manual says that if you run it as daemon, you should run it with the --check flag as well, is this why it's not updating now? Or should it be enough that "check" variable is defined in /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf? Kind regards, Jonny
This is a common situation with ClamAV. Usually in logs is message "WARNING: Local version: 0.95.3 Recommended version: 0.96" or something similar, and is caused only because fast developing cycle (which is good thing, of course). Message tells about main binary version only, virus definitions are still up-to-date. In Debian, enable Volatile-repo, http://www.debian.org/volatile/ which will deliver updated version as soon as possible. For other Linux-distribution, maybe someone else knows cure...
I've updated apt-get with volatile already before upgrading other packages, it did not help. It never even suggested a newer ClamAV version.
Current 0.95.3 came from volatile last december, if i remember right. I am pretty sure 0.96 will appear in few weeks or so, couple weeks after mainstream, as usual. Again, there is nothing to worry about, it is jut annoying and unnecessary warning. I try to find time to take care of it in monitor module.
Ok thx, I see the problem now. I'll safely ignore it until the next version gets included in the apt source.
Thanks for this post I had the same worry's about that warning. So if I am reading it correct the Code: main.cvd is up to date is the virus database.
yes, that's the one. in current 0.96-version there is 3 files, main.cld, daily.cld and bytecode.cld. if all of them are "up to date", everything is ok. (.cvd changes to .cld after freshclam has applied incremental updates.)