> How do you start freshclam, as daemon or manually to test it? It's sztarted as a daemon by a script. I have manually started it up with the same results. > > I don't agree with the library theory, it looks to me that you are > running at least two different copies of freshclam, one of them is the > old version 0.81. I was thinking the same thing, but there is only one (like highlander). I have only installed it through the BSD ports collection, and after I removed 0.81, I went through and manually nuked anything that looked to be lingering.
> Perhaps it's runnig (and installed) under a user account, as a cronjob. > Do the timestamps on the log show there are two regular frequencies of > updating? Here is a snippet from the logs. After freshclam starts up, I get one or two normal looking cycles, then it start puking: Received signal 14, wake up ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 9 14:56:29 2005 main.cvd is up to date (version: 30, sigs: 31086, f-level: 4, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up to date (version: 760, sigs: 464, f-level: 4, builder: diego) -------------------------------------- Received signal 14, wake up ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 9 15:25:17 2005 main.cvd is up to date (version: 30, sigs: 31086, f-level: 4, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up to date (version: 760, sigs: 464, f-level: 4, builder: diego) -------------------------------------- Received signal 14, wake up ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 9 15:32:30 2005 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Local version: 0.81 Recommended version: 0.83 ERROR: Can't create new file ./clamav-c323f26f7af853b0 in ERROR: The database directory must be writable for UID 106 or GID 106 ERROR: Can't download main.cvd from db.us.clamav.net (IP: 69.44.153.29) -------------------------------------- Received signal 14, wake up ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 9 15:32:30 2005 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Local version: 0.81 Recommended version: 0.83 ERROR: Can't create new file ./clamav-a216c38f78d832db in ERROR: The database directory must be writable for UID 106 or GID 106 ERROR: Can't download main.cvd from db.us.clamav.net (IP: 66.111.55.10) -------------------------------------- Received signal 14, wake up ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 9 15:54:05 2005 main.cvd is up to date (version: 30, sigs: 31086, f-level: 4, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up to date (version: 760, sigs: 464, f-level: 4, builder: diego) -------------------------------------- Received signal 14, wake up ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 9 16:22:53 2005 main.cvd is up to date (version: 30, sigs: 31086, f-level: 4, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up to date (version: 760, sigs: 464, f-level: 4, builder: diego) I still have the "cannot open new file" message. That's a separate problem it would seem. > > > In another message you said you found the string "0.81" inside the > library, is this correct? If it is, then that library IS the old one, > the new one (using strings <path to lib> | grep "0\.8") only shows 0.83. I've done that and only come up with 0.83. If I said 0.81 was found, I was having one of them chair<->keyboard interface problems. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
