[clamav-users] Clamav signature

[Jeff Koch]

Hi

It appears clamscan is using the latest signature database. We needed to 
run 'qmailctl cdb' to update the signatures being included in logs and 
email headers. Once that was done the signature file version 25931 was 
reported. Seems strange that the clamscan logs needed to get that 
information from qmail's simversions.cdb file.

I ran 'clamconf' - it reports the

Database information
--------------------
Database directory: /var/lib/clamav
daily.cld: version 25931, sigs: 4319278, built on Thu Sep 17 09:53:56 2020
bytecode.cld: version 331, sigs: 94, built on Thu Sep 19 12:12:33 2019
main.cld: version 59, sigs: 4564902, built on Mon Nov 25 08:56:15 2019
Total number of signatures: 8884274

Thanks, Jeff

On 9/17/2020 6:21 PM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Jeff Koch wrote:
>
>> The freshclam logs show daily.cvd signature file version 25930 is 
>> installed but simscan: clamscan currently shows version 25920 being 
>> used. How do I get clamscan to use the latest version downloaded?
>
> First take a look through the output of 'clamconf', it might shed some 
> light.
>

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