On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:15:20 -0400 James Ralston <qralston+ml.clamav-us...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> But freshclam falls over fairly badly if you try to use it to update > internal clients from a private mirror, even though it has some > options to help adjust its behavior for that purpose. > > Now I'm thinking that if freshclam is going to be a good tool for > updating clients behind a private mirror, there really needs to be an > option to specify that directly. Something like: > > # If PrivateMirror is set, freshclam assumes that the server it > # names is a private mirror. In this case, freshclam does not > # attempt to use DNS to determine whether its databases are > # out-of-date, but instead downloads the database files from the > # private mirror every time it runs. For each database, freshclam > # first attempts to download the CVD file. If that fails, > # freshclam tries to grab the CLD file. If the attempt to > # download the CVD file and attempt to download the CLD file both > # fail, then that counts as a single attempt against MaxAttempts. > # Default: disabled. > #PrivateMirror clam-update.example.org I see no problem adding such a feature, just open a feature request at bugs.clamav.net > But a counterargument would be that rather than turn freshclam into a > glorified wget, if someone really wants to mirror a private mirror, > they should just write a script using wget to do it. > > Thoughts? Besides downloading the db files, freshclam performes a number of checks - it won't install corrupted db file, etc. So it should still be more effective than wget. Regards, -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <tk...@clamav.net> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Fri Jul 15 13:55:37 CEST 2011 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
