[clamav-users] freshclam daemon fails updating process

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Barbero Real, Miquel wrote:

> ...
> Mon Sep 14 11:07:12 2020 -> Retrieving https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
> Mon Sep 14 11:07:12 2020 -> downloadFile: Download source:      https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
> Mon Sep 14 11:07:12 2020 -> downloadFile: Download destination: /var/clamav/tmp.44050/clamav-d4bf4c9f43591f8d2c23bbb224d4c0e2.tmp
> Mon Sep 14 11:07:22 2020 -> WARNING: Download failed (28) Mon Sep 14 11:07:22 2020 -> WARNING:  Message: Timeout was reached
> ...
> Please, any clue to fix this behavior would be pretty appreciate.

Look at ReceiveTimeout in freschlam.conf.  It looks like you have it
set to about 10 seconds which is far too short to load a full recent
daily database, although it would work for the incremental updates.

The default on a new installation now is I think 1800 (half an hour).

-- 

73,
Ged.