[clamav-users] Download timeout/retry issue

[Jim Householder]

Last month I had a problem with freshclam.  It would timeout downloading 
its files and retry.  Continuously.  It wiped out my monthly data quota.

I fixed the problem by changing the timeout from 30 to 0 in freshclam.conf.

Last night's update replaced freshclam.conf with a new copy, changing 
the timeout back to 30.

Between 8pm last night and 10am today my data quota was exhausted again. 
  I'm now limited to 12KBS til the end of the month.

My satellite Internet connection is good for 12Mbs, which limits my 
download speed to about 1.2MBS.  Thus the 60+MB file that freshclam 
wants can never be acquired in 30 seconds.

The default timeout needs to be at least 120 seconds to allow for slow 
speeds.

Not happy