[clamav-users] Where can I download daily.cvd, bytecode.cvd and main.cvd from?

[Nick Howitt]

On 17/01/2022 15:06, Arjen de Korte via clamav-users wrote:
> 
> Citeren Nick Howitt via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>:
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>> Not quite. I have taken over the packaging of this and the 
>> justification of packaging the sigs is partly that the tool will work 
>> and scan out of the box, partly for the offline consideration and 
>> partly because there will be a delay after installation where ClamAV 
>> is installed but not in a running condition. IIRC it won't even start 
>> without a database. This means that a yum install will need to pause 
>> and run freshclam before it can attempt to start clamd. This has 
>> knock-on issues and, apparently, it is always best for yum todownload 
>> what it needs with yum and not some third party tool.
> 
> One thing to remember is, is that if you intend your packaging tool to 
> rebuild the package frequently (daily? weekly?), you'll be 
> indistinguishable from abusive downloaders who download the full 
> database over and over again (and don't use freshclam / cvdupdate 
> instead). This will get your IP blacklisted fairly quickly as you 
> empirically found out already.
> 
> One option would be to setup a local database mirror that is updated 
> through either freshclam or cvdupdate and let your packaging tool 
> download the database from there with whatever method you see fit (wget, 
> curl). That will prevent frequent downloading the full database from the 
> ClamAV servers, yet will allow you to package fresh database files as 
> often as you see fit.
We only rebuild on an upstream update. At some point after it is 
installed the servers will run freshclam. Until freshclam is run you 
can't start clamd, so you perhaps need a watcher to start clamd at an 
appropriate time? madness!