[clamav-users] Freshclam - can't apply latest patch 26246

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Wed, 28 Jul 2021, Lee, Raymond wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:16 AM Asenova, Elia wrote:
>>
>> ... when running freshclam I get the following errors ...
>> Downloaded 22 patches for daily, which is fewer than the 37 expected patches.
>> We'll settle for this partial-update, at least for now.
>> ERROR: cdiff_apply: lseek(desc, -350, SEEK_END) failed
> 
> I ran into this same problem and just deleted /var/lib/clamav/daily.c[lv]d
> and ran freshclam again.

If that doesn't help, check that the timeouts in your configuration
file for freshclam aren't very short.  A long time ago the default was
30 seconds I think, but that's too short now - the default now is to
have no timeout at all.  Until the recent updates to main and daily I
had ReceiveTimeout set to 1800 seconds.  Even that was too short here,
so I've now set it to 3600 seconds.

>> [LibClamAV] ***  The virus database is older than 7 days!  ***

Can we take it that the computer's clock is set correctly?

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73,
Ged.