Hi,

It looks like return code 1 means the virus database is up to date (#define
FC_UPTODATE 1 from freshclamcodes.h). Please advise if this is incorrect or
inconsistent. The man page needs to be updated.

Thanks,
Steve

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Andreas Schulze <andreas.schu...@datev.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> consider this setup. the goal is to run a separate clamav instance using
> *only* our database files
> to speedup clamav reload times.
>
> # cat custom-freshclam.conf
>         DatabaseCustomURL http://our.clamav.mirror/local_foo.ndb
>         DatabaseDirectory /path/to/custom_clamdir/
>         # required but not relevant here
>         DatabaseMirror our.clamav.mirror
>
> # freshclam --config-file=/path/to/custom-freshclam.conf
> --update-db=custom
> ...
>
> # echo $?
> 1
>
> unfortunately the exit code is *always* 1 ("man freshclam" doesn't
> describe 1 as exit code at all ...)
> normaly freshclam return 0 if some files where updated or if all files are
> uptodate.
> Am I using freshclam wrongly or should I consider this as a bug ?
> ( version 0.99.2 )
>
> --
> A. Schulze
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