[clamav-users] Syncing only CustomDatabaseURLs with freshclam

Noel Jones njones at megan.vbhcs.org
Fri Sep 7 16:26:19 UTC 2018


On 9/7/2018 9:42 AM, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm running ClamAV with an additional third party virus database. That
> database is kept up to date by specifying the files shipped by it as
> DatabaseCustomURL entries in freshclam.conf like this:
> 
...
> 
> Is there some way to get freshclam to do what I want here or maybe some
> other way (without freshclam) to update only the third-party database?
> 


Perhaps the freshclam option "--update-db=DBNAME" is what you're
looking for.  See "man freshclam" for details.



  -- Noel Jones



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