[clamav-users] Problem with Freshclam and local mirror

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 15:07:21 Simon Hobson wrote:
> Shawn Webb <swebb at sourcefire.com> wrote:
> >> I suspect the fault lies in a rather small piece of code that was
> >> supposed
> >> to make the call to recv() a little more robust. If you have the ability
> >> (or desire) to compile from source, can you please try the attached
> >> patch?
> >> If the patch works, I'll integrate it into our next release.
> 
> Thanks, but I'm not really in a position to test it - I don't have build
> tools on any of my machines, and don't really have the skills to use them
> anyway.
> 
> In response to my bug report
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743305), Andreas
> Cadhalpun has pointed out that there is now a PrivateMirror option in
> freshclam.conf. I've configured this and things now seem to work, though I
> need to leave it for a while to be sure. The only reference to the new
> option I could find on my system was on line 962 of the changelog.

For Debian and Debian derivatives, such as Ubuntu, in the packaged version of 
clamav there's a sample config file installed with the system that describes 
this option.  It can be found at:

/usr/share/doc/clamav-freshclam/examples/freshclam.conf.sample

Scott K