Your main.cvd file should start with: ClamAV-VDB:16 Mar 2016 23-17 +0000:57:4218790:60:06386
If it doesn’t then your original download is corrupt and will need to be re-downloaded. -Al- On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:33 AM, Zvi Kave wrote: > > Yes. Usually I got a lot of messages like this: > ClamAV update process started at Sat Apr 30 03:00:50 2016 > Reading CVD header (main.cvd): Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Sat Apr 30 03:00:57 2016 > Reading CVD header (main.cvd): Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Sat Apr 30 03:01:02 2016 > ClamAV update process started at Sat Apr 30 03:01:19 2016 > Reading CVD header (main.cvd): Trying again in 5 secs... > ClamAV update process started at Sat Apr 30 03:01:25 2016 > > Zvi > > On 16/05/2016 11:30, Al Varnell wrote: >> Is there some reason you are not using freshclam to do this initially and >> thereafter to download incremental updates? >> >> Sent from Janet's iPad >> >> -Al- >> >> On May 16, 2016, at 1:29 AM, Zvi Kave<zvi.k...@razlee.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to download daily.cvd and main.cvd by curl command as follows: >>> >>> curl --data-binary -k"http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd"; -G -o >>> daily.cvd >>> >>> Most of the time, I get this text instead of the real *.cvd file: >>> >>> <|DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> >>> <html><head> >>> <title>403 Forbidden</title> >>> </head><body> >>> <h1>Forbidden</h1> >>> <p>You don't have permission to access /daily.cvd >>> on this server.<br /> >>> </p> >>> <hr> >>> <address>Apache/2.4.20 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2g Server at <a >>> href="mailto:webmas...@omroep.nl";>database.clamav.net</a> Port 80</addresss> >>> </body></html> >>> >>> But randomly I get the real cvd file!? >>> >>> Can someone help me in this weird issue? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Zvi >> _______________________________________________ >> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: >> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq >> >> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml >> > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml -Al- -- Al Varnell Mountain View, CA
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