Good catch. I’d you want to make a pull request to fix that, I will accept it right away.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 3, 2020, at 06:10, G.W. Haywood <clamav-de...@jubileegroup.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi there, > > [1] > > The following appears at http://www.clamav.net/downloads . > > [quote] > Virus Database > > For ClamAV to work properly, both the ClamAV engine and the ClamAV > Virus Database (CVD) must be kept up to date. > > Freshclam should perform these updates automatically. Instructions for > setting up Freshclam can be found in the documentation section. If > your network is segmented or the end hosts are unable to reach the > Internet, you should investigate setting up a private local mirror. If > this is not viable, you may use these direct download links: [snip] > [/quote] > > This seems to me to be rather misleading in that it seems to say that > freshclam should automatically update the ClamAV engine. It does not > do that (and in my view it could be dangerous for it to attempt to do > such a thing). > > Perhaps the section could be reworded, something like: > > "Each time it wakes up, freshclam first checks that the ClamAV engine > is up to date, and issues a warning if it is not. Whether the engine > is up to date or not it will then automatically update the database. > Instructions for setting up Freshclam can be found in the ..." > > [2] > > In the 0.103.0-rc2 tarball, README.md says > > [quote] > #### Build from Source on Linux/Unix/Mac > > For basic compile and install instructions on Linux/Unix platforms, > check out the [install instructions](INSTALL.md). > [/quote] > > There is no file 'INSTALL.md'. The file is 'INSTALL.autotools.md'. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-devel mailing list > clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-devel > > Please submit your patches to our Github: > https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel/pulls > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
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