[clamav-users] Problem with Freshclam and local mirror

[Greg Folkert]

On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 10:30 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
[SNIP]
> 
> And on the Apache logs of the main server, I can see daily.cvd being fetched at 06:50 then nothing at all after that. It looks like Freshclam just flags the mirror as bad and never checks it again.
> 
> 
> Any ideas ?

Here is a cronjob I put in to remove the mirrors.dat

# remove "mirrors.dat" so Freshclam will use local mirror
3 0 * * * rm -f /var/clamav/mirrors.dat

I had this problem and have used a brute force solution to remove the
mirrors.dat file every day so it'll ignore previous problems (like the
machine being unavailable or other such issues)
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