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

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Dec 15 14:38:08 UTC 2017


Am 15.12.2017 um 15:27 schrieb Micah Snyder (micasnyd):
> Hang on, did you just say that clamav doesn’t have write permissions to the databases?  That /would/ explain why freshclam can’t save the new database files.

well, people should really stop using idiotic "sudo" in front of every 
random command, especially writers of howtos, it's shocking how many 
stuff is prefixed these days with sudo for no reason when you google around

stat /var/lib/clamav
ls -lha /var/lib/clamav

man chown
man chmod

> On Dec 15, 2017, at 4:52 AM, George <gdparlichev at gmail.com<mailto:gdparlichev at gmail.com>> wrote:
> wget database.clamav.net/main.cvd<http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd>
> sudo cp main.cvd /var/lib/clamav
> wget database.clamav.net/daily.cvd<http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd>
> sudo cp daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav



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