Bug 22458 – clamav's freshclam fails to update

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Eric Olinger 2003-06-08 14:49:18 UTC]

The freshclam component of the clamav package fails to update  the virus database
if the main mirror is down, since the hostname is hard coded into the binary.
There is a new version that switches between the different mirrors at
http://clamav.ozforces.com/clamav-20030605.tar.gz

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install calmav
2. Run freshcalm


Actual Results:  
can't connect to port 80 of calmav.elektrapro.com.

Expected Results:  
updates clamav's virus database.

the whole webserver server for elektrapro.com seems to be offline and 
unforutinatly all of the mailing lists for clamav are hosted on or with
elektrapro.com

[Comment 1 Preston A. Elder (RETIRED) 2003-06-22 13:31:55 UTC]

This has been resolved with the advent of 0.60 - which needs testing before it is unmasked.

[Comment 2 Norberto Bensa 2003-06-25 22:06:50 UTC]

Preston, while you are at it, could please move /usr/share/clamav to 
/var/something/clamav??? My /usr ir RO and freshclam fails. 
 
Thank you, 
Norberto 
 

[Comment 3 Andrew Glen-Young 2003-07-11 03:16:26 UTC]

Clamav-0.60 seems to have one or two issues:
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1) clamd when started drops from the root user to clamav and then tries to write
the pid file to /var/run/clamd.pid. This is easily remedied by creating a
/var/run/clamav directory and changing the perms so that clamav can write to it.
The /etc/init.d/clamd stop() function needs to be changed to reflect this move.
The /etc/clamav.conf file needs to be changed to reflect this move too.
2) Shouldn't the virus dbs be kept in /usr/lib/clamav as opposed to
/usr/share/clamav? The permissions on /usr/lib/clamav are not correct. Freshclam drop to a compile time specified user (clamav) when it runs. This user needs permission to write to this directory in order for it to download antivirus updates. 

[Comment 4 Norberto Bensa 2003-08-14 09:57:32 UTC]

Any progress on this one? The host used by freshclam (clamav.linux-sxs.org) is 
out of date and it seems freshclam (0.60) doesn't switch to other mirrors... 
 
 

[Comment 5 Andrew Glen-Young 2003-08-15 01:16:07 UTC]

In connection with Norberto Bensa's comment:
The new virus db URL is: http://clamav.sourceforge.net/database/

[Comment 6 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-12-29 06:34:32 UTC]

> Shouldn't the virus dbs be kept in /usr/lib/clamav as opposed to /usr/share/clamav?
it should be /var/lib/clamav

[Comment 7 Hanno Böck 2004-01-20 11:03:29 UTC]

Update to 0.65 should help.
I also changed the location of the virus-db to /var to be compliant to the FHS.