[clamav-users] using older clients to download from internal clam proxy

[novpenguincne]

Thank you for the quick response.  So that would lead into the logical next question.  What would be the earliest client version that would work?  I tried installing the 103.x client on that box but 103.x requires SystemD and this older box is still using SystemV.  So is there a version of the client that is new enough to accept the new definition files but still old enough to install on a SystemV-based o/s?

James

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On Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 at 10:49 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) <jesler at cisco.com> wrote:

> James,
>
> Thanks for your email. ClamAV definitions won’t even work on those older versions anymore. The Flevel for the main.cvd and daily.cvd are now set higher than that, so those systems shouldn’t be able to load the newer definitions.
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> > On Dec 2, 2021, at 11:08, novpenguincne via clamav-users clamav-users at lists.clamav.net wrote:
> >
> > To facilitate bandwidth issues, I've set up an internal clam proxy server on SLES15 running the 103.x client. I have successfully connected to it using a different SLES15 box also running the 103.x client and downloaded updates to it.
> >
> > However, I still have an older SLES11 box running the 98.x client. Due to extenuating circumstances, this box is not a candidate for an o/s upgrade. I also know from CLAM documentation that clients older than 100.x are no longer supported. But I would still like to have some a/v on this box until its retirement so I was trying to have it download from the proxy server as well.
> >
> > When I first attempted, it failed because it was trying to download main.cld which didn't exist on the proxy. So I turned off "scripted updates" on both the proxy and the target SLES11 box which is now forcing everything to use cvd files only. But now when I run freshclam on the SLES11 box, I'm getting different errors. It downloads the daily.cvd successfully. Then it tries to load signatures from daily.cvd. And then I get a sequence of errors:
> >
> > ERROR: During database Load
> >
> > WARNING: [LibClamAV] cli_ac_addsig: Signature for Win.Backdoor.SystemBC-9885562-0 is too short
> >
> > ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database
> >
> > WARNING: Database load exited with status 55
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> > ERROR: Failed to load new database
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> > Do I need to make a change in the freshclam.conf to get this to work? Or is it a matter of the 98.x client unable to read datafiles designed for 103.x clients?
> >
> > James
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