Topic: freshclam: Update failed

[idyll]

gordonr, thank you for your work and your reasonable reply.

pfloor, it's all yours. Your writing style is very reminiscent of USENET. And, taking your suggestion into mind, I left USENET decades ago.

Buh-bye.

patrick

[Mjohnson]

A couple of points before I retreat back to the shadows:

1.  The SME portal is not that easy to navigate.  We have too much "Pride of Authorship" going around to have an objective view on this subject.  

2.  Regarding searching for answers:  It took me 3 months before I saw that little link at the bottom of the search result categories "Show More Results".  Once I saw that, then searching for an answer to my problems got real real easy.  If you don't see that link, then frankly the search feature is pretty useless.

3.  Regarding response to querries, why not appoint a moderator (or two or three) to be responsible for forum responses, enforcing civility...ect.  The SME equivalent of the Wal-Mart Greeters?  Lot's of folks are looking to help out on this project (me included)...we are just looking for a way to make our efforts be worth while.  

MJ

[chris burnat]

2.  Regarding searching for answers:  It took me 3 months before I saw that little link at the bottom of the search result categories "Show More Results".  Once I saw that, then searching for an answer to my problems got real real easy.  If you don't see that link, then frankly the search feature is pretty useless.

There is usually a simple explanation to most things, and in the present case, Mjohnson's comment above hits it on the nail.  I have been there myself, and only noticed the "show more results" link after many months, and a few terse replies from experienced users...  Do not ask me why, but I really did not see it, and I kicked myself the day I finally found all the posts relevant to my search.  

How difficult would it be to relocate the link on top of the default search, preferably using larger fonts?  Do we actually need the short form search anyway? In the meantime, invitations to perform a search could perhaps mention the need to use  the "show more results" link.

[pfloor]

How difficult would it be to relocate the link on top of the default search, preferably using larger fonts?  Do we actually need the short form search anyway?

burnat, that is absolutly a BRILLIANT idea.  I put it in the bug tracker so Greg can take a look and see what he can do about it.

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559

[troykd]

pfloor,
The sole point I'm trying to make is, we don't need Nazi's in here.  

If someone makes an inquiry, you don't have to be a dick.

[raem]

burnat

> In the meantime, invitations to perform a search could perhaps mention
> the need to use  the "show more results" link

It is "Show all results" not "Show more results".

If you do a search on "Show all results"
you will find out how many, many, many times it has been suggested to people, to make sure they do click on it.

Just make sure you click on Show all results, to indeed show all the results !

[forumuser7]

I don't want to interrupt the interesting discussion here….
I just want to post some more details regarding “freshclam: Update failed” problem.

pfloor: "From time to time" What exactly do you mean here? Freshclam runs every hour, 24 >times a day. Do you get this every hour at the same time?

I saw warning emails twice in May and twice in June (so far). I do not remember how many warnings I received in April.
I agree that all these emails could indicate a problem with my internet connection, but why frechclam sends only emails without message body?

Here is the output of the freshclam command from my host running now SME 7.0 RC2:

[root@myhost ~]# freshclam
--------------------------------------
ClamAV update process started at Sun Jun 11 22:39:46 2006
ClamAV update process started at Sun Jun 11 22:39:46 2006
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.88.1 Recommended version: 0.88.2
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.88.1 Recommended version: 0.88.2
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
main.cvd is up to date (version: 39, sigs: 58116, f-level: 8, builder: tkojm)
main.cvd is up to date (version: 39, sigs: 58116, f-level: 8, builder: tkojm)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 7, recommended = 8
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 7, recommended = 8
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 1532, sigs: 918, f-level: 8, builder: sven)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 1532, sigs: 918, f-level: 8, builder: sven)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 7, recommended = 8
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 7, recommended = 8
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
[root@myhost ~]#

It says that ClamAV installation is outdated…How can I update it?
Does upgrading to SME 7.0 RC3 solve the problem?

Thank you all for the ideas in advance!

[mdo]

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It says that ClamAV installation is outdated…How can I update it?
Does upgrading to SME 7.0 RC3 solve the problem?

Thank you all for the ideas in advance!

Yes, SME7.0rc3 includes the latest version for ClamAV (0.88.2 I believe it is).

Re. your original question, the freshclam updates:

Since freshclam checks every hour again for possible updates, I tend to ignore a single, now and then warning about the update problem. If it continues with those emails for some hours, then I would investigate.

Michael

[forumuser7]

Thank You Michiel!

I'm going to upgrade to RC3.
I hope this will solve my problem

Thanks again!

[judgej]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=31373.0

I just came across this post while searching for the same error. Just to reiterate, the above link provided the solution for me. Thought I would reiterate that, since there are no other clues in the rest of this thread.

If we don't put links in to relevant threads, then "doing a search" just turns up dozens of threads that say, simply, "do a search". That, of course, is as much use as a hole in the head.

-- JJ