On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:42:53AM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > I frequently receive mail to clamav@`hostname` from the Cron Daemon, > saying "curl: (28) connect() timed out!", one or more times. ... > The missing info is how severe those warnings are. > When have those files been last updated?
That is indeed the most annoying thing about clamav-unofficial-sigs, CCing upstream on this mail, Bill, full discussion here: https://bugs.debian.org/761162 Bill, would it be possible for you to update clamav-unofficial-sigs so that only signature downtime of more than one day is reported by the cron job? The current setup means that many admins are getting a lot of non-actionable cron spam, myself included. > Perhaps, that recipient address should be configurable. To set the recipient address you can put MAILTO=some...@example.org in the cron job configuration file. > shell variable si_url is hardcoded in clamav-unofficial- > sigs.sh. Perhaps, making it configurable may encourage > donations. In fact, it is not clear whether that host > is managed by Sanesecurity or SecuriteInfo. You can change the default URL by putting si_url=... here: /etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf.d/sanesecurl.conf I doubt the premium mirrors would resolve this issue though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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