On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
inner my cronjob with 'freshclam start' on end 'freshclam stop' - not as
daemon
Do you have a good reason *not* to use the daemon ?
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
Then on each Upgrade Ubuntu replaces my whole permissions for ClamAV and
with this, ClamAV didn't work anymore, so I always need to restore my own
Permissions to get ClamAV working again.
On my machine the files in /var/lib/clamav are all owned by
clamav:clamav
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It seems the "Ubunturized" ClamAV Version don't check the downloaded
signature files (I have enabled this option in my freshclam.conf), in the
original ClamAV this always happen and is logged into freshclam.log - for
each Database file
I don't know if this feature isn't implemented on Ubuntu side, or it isn't
logged only.
# sudo grep 10:38: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> TTL: 911
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> fc_dns_query_update_info: Software version from
DNS: 1.0.9
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> check_for_new_database_version: Local copy of daily
found: daily.cld.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> query_remote_database_version: daily.cvd version
from DNS: 27701
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> daily database available for update (local version:
27700, remote version: 27701)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Retrieving
https://database.clamav.net/daily-27701.cdiff
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> downloadFile: Download source:
https://database.clamav.net/daily-27701.cdiff
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> downloadFile: Download destination:
./clamav-dc76e36b77e4563bc81714a692beedf5.tmp
Wed Jul 16 10:38:27 2025 -> updatedb: Running g_cb_download_complete callback...
Wed Jul 16 10:38:27 2025 -> Loading signatures from
/var/lib/clamav/tmp.869e3d53df/clamav-469526fcf1c0cda76712650bfacb28c2.tmp-daily.cld
Wed Jul 16 10:38:51 2025 -> Properly loaded 2075836 signatures from
/var/lib/clamav/tmp.869e3d53df/clamav-469526fcf1c0cda76712650bfacb28c2.tmp-daily.cld
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> daily.cld updated (version: 27701, sigs: 2075836,
f-level: 90, builder: raynman)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> fc_update_database: daily.cld updated.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> check_for_new_database_version: Local copy of main
found: main.cvd.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> query_remote_database_version: main.cvd version
from DNS: 62
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> main.cvd database is up-to-date (version: 62, sigs:
6647427, f-level: 90, builder: sigmgr)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> fc_update_database: main.cvd already up-to-date.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> check_for_new_database_version: Local copy of
bytecode found: bytecode.cld.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> query_remote_database_version: bytecode.cvd version
from DNS: 336
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> bytecode.cld database is up-to-date (version: 336,
sigs: 83, f-level: 90, builder: nrandolp)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> fc_update_database: bytecode.cld already up-to-date.
Does that have the missing downloaded signature file checks ?
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
[email protected]
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