[clamav-users] looks like I have a problem too

[Paul Smith]

On 10/03/2021 20:29, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:
> I wrote a little script that run off cron every hour or so. But it *only* invokes freshclam after querying ClamAV's DNS TXT record to see if any advertised versions of 'daily', 'bytecode' or 'main' are newer than the local versions of the CVD files

As I understand it, Freshclam already won't do anything if the DNS 
record shows the same versions as the locally available CVD files, so 
you don't need to do that.

That's certainly how it seems to behave here. If the DNS record hasn't 
changed, then it just says "everything's fine" and does nothing else. 
So, if you ran Freshclam every minute, it wouldn't download anything 
except lots of DNS queries (which would be cached more locally).

The bandwidth problem is due to people NOT using Freshclam at all.

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Paul


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