Is there a way to minimize the amount of memory freshclam uses so it will run 
on an instance with 512MB?

> On Mar 5, 2021, at 10:29 AM, Ritch Parker <ri...@mixxum.com> wrote:
> 
> I originally tried to setup Freshclam but found that, like the scan, it 
> consumes a large amount of memory.  I have an instance large enough to run 
> the scans, but it is on an internal subnet without external access… but 
> downloading files takes almost no memory, so to save some cost I just setup a 
> small instance on the public subnet to download the daily file… doing a once 
> every four hour check, then move the file to the larger instance.  Was going 
> to update further to do a head request, but then it stopped working :(  
> ...Really was just looking for an update solution that could be run with a 
> very small amount of memory and resources and this seemed to be the best fit.
> 
> 
>> On Mar 5, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users 
>> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Are you using Freshclam to download the updates?
>> 
>>> On Mar 5, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Ritch Parker <ri...@mixxum.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Yesterday, for some reason, all my AWS VMs receive a 403 Forbidden response 
>>> from clamav when attempting to pull the latest cvd files.  I’ve tried from 
>>> two different instances, from a lambda, and then from my local machine. All 
>>> result in the same response:
>>> 
>>> $ wget http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
>>> --2021-03-05 09:47:46--  http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
>>> Resolving database.clamav.net (database.clamav.net)... 104.16.218.84, 
>>> 104.16.219.84
>>> Connecting to database.clamav.net 
>>> (database.clamav.net)|104.16.218.84|:80... connected.
>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
>>> 2021-03-05 09:47:48 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>>> 
>>> Not sure how I can resolve this.  Is this temporary?  I been checking once 
>>> every 4 hours and no change.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
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