[clamav-users] How to download and update main.cvd and daily.cvd manually AND update mirrors

Fri Dec 15 14:20:53 UTC 2017

Hello George,

1) Did you delete mirror.dat, then re-run freshclam? 
2) Did you include in your freshclam.conf your countryside in the DatabaseMirror section? Db.xy.clamav.net? Once doing that, run freshclam.

Thanks,

Tom M

On 12/15/17, 4:52 AM, "clamav-users on behalf of George" <clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net on behalf of gdparlichev at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Dennis,
>
>Thanks again for your answer.
>I just checked and clamav can read the main.cvd and the daily.cvd. It
>cannot write. I hope that's what you meant.
>Otherwise, when I tried a manual update. I did what follows but, as you can
>see, to no avail:
>
>user at virus:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam stop
>[ ok ] Stopping clamav-freshclam (via systemctl): clamav-freshclam.service.
>user at virus:~$ sudo freshclam
>ClamAV update process started at Fri Dec 15 11:46:39 2017
>main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder:
>sigmgr)
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net
>WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
>WARNING: Can't download daily.cvd from db.local.clamav.net
>Trying again in 5 secs...
>...
>ClamAV update process started at Fri Dec 15 11:47:07 2017
>main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder:
>sigmgr)
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-24011.cdiff from database.clamav.net
>WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
>ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net
>Giving up on database.clamav.net...
>Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in
>/etc/clamav/freshclam.conf is working. Check
>http://www.clamav.net/doc/mirrors-faq.html for possible reasons.
>
>I don't know what to do here.
>
>Best regards,
>George
>
>2017-12-14 18:53 GMT+02:00 Dennis Peterson <dennispe at inetnw.com>:
>
>> Did you make sure permissions are set so that the clam user can read them?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/14/17 8:49 AM, George wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I mistakingly copied this twice in the email. But I did it as in your
>>> reply. that's not the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> George
>>>
>>> 2017-12-14 18:39 GMT+02:00 Dennis Peterson <dennispe at inetnw.com>:
>>>
>>> you are downloading main.cvd twice. Change one of the wget commands to
>>>> download daily.cvd.
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>>
>>>> wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd
>>>> sudo cp main.cvd /var/lib/clamav
>>>> wget database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
>>>> sudo cp daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> dp
>>>>
>>>> On 12/14/17 8:28 AM, George wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am still getting the message that my database is more than 7 days
>>>>> old. I
>>>>> successfully downloaded and updated main.cvd and daily.cvd manually, as
>>>>> follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd
>>>>> sudo cp main.cvd /var/lib/clamav
>>>>> wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd
>>>>> sudo cp daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav
>>>>>
>>>>>
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