Topic: WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!

[steve288]

Sorry for this tired old problem...

Im getting the following problem...

2011-02-22 01:07:49.259276500 ClamAV update process started at Tue Feb 22 01:07:49 2011
2011-02-22 01:07:49.259717500 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
2011-02-22 01:07:49.259749500 WARNING: Local version: 0.96.4 Recommended version: 0.97
2011-02-22 01:07:49.259754500 DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
2011-02-22 01:07:49.259931500 main.cld is up to date (version: 53, sigs: 846214, f-level: 53, builder: sven)
2011-02-22 01:07:49.282481500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.282993500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.283462500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.283929500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.284498500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.284979500 ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.289036500 WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
2011-02-22 01:07:49.289602500 ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.289803500 Giving up on database.clamav.net...
2011-02-22 01:07:49.289833500 Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /etc/freshclam.conf is
working. Check http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons.

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********** tried to run the following ...

#yum upgrade clamav

***** but got the following


Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
smeaddons                 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
smeextras                 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
smeos                     100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
smeupdates                100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
Determining fastest mirrors
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
Could not find update match for clamav
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

***** but it seems it didnt find anything.

****  I have tried to follow the informative thread
****  http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=45873.0

**** I ran update which installed some general files, but then
***** I ran update again ....

[root@mail etc]# yum update clamav
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
Could not find update match for clamav
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

**** note strange error at end.
**** now im going to clean things up and update again.

[root@mail etc]# yum clean all
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Cleaning up Everything
797 headers removed
797 packages removed
18 metadata files removed
0 cache files removed
6 cache files removed

**** here im updating things again

[root@mail etc]# yum update
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
smeaddons                 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
smeextras                 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
smeos                     100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
smeupdates                100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  10 kB    00:00
smeaddons : ################################################## 24/24
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  18 kB    00:00
smeextras : ################################################## 55/55
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 611 kB    00:01
base      : ################################################## 1599/1599
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 568 kB    00:01
updates   : ################################################## 1343/1343
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 262 kB    00:00
smeos     : ################################################## 568/568
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  54 kB    00:00
smeupdates: ################################################## 99/99
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

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***** To see if the repositories are enabled I ran the following based on http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=45873.0 

[root@server ~]# db yum_repositories show smeupdates

**** however mine didnt show an error notice "status=enabled."

 db yum_repositories show smeupdates
smeupdates=repository
    BaseURL=http://mirror.contribs.org/pub/smeserver/releases/7/smeupdates/$base     arch
    EnableGroups=yes
    GPGCheck=yes
    MirrorList=http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/mirro     rlist/smeupdates-7
    Name=SME Server - updates
    Visible=yes
    status=enabled
---------------------------------

**** To see see if there are two copies installed as some mention I ran whereis
**** and to see where its installed I run these two commands
**** here are my results.

[root@mail etc]# whereis clamscan
clamscan: /usr/bin/clamscan /usr/share/man/man1/clamscan.1.gz
[root@mail etc]# whereis freshclam
freshclam: /usr/bin/freshclam /etc/freshclam.conf /usr/share/man/man1/freshclam.1.gz
[root@mail etc]#
-----------------------------------------------------

**** the clam website talks about checking if you have several copies of libclamav.so installed.
**** it talks about running a ldd command which I dont think we have. So I ran locate instead and got this.

[root@mail freshclam]# locate libclamav.so
/usr/lib/libclamav.so
/usr/lib/libclamav.so.6.1.6
/usr/lib/libclamav.so.6

**** I dont know if this means I have more .so files than I need I dont know anything about this.
**** Can anyone tell me how to get my clamAV engine from .96.4 to .97

**** By the way the message below that was included in the orignal message my not be valid now, Im not sure I see it in the freshclam logs in more recent days, so that could ?? have been a network glitch, but the version outdated is certainly still there.

2011-02-22 01:07:49.282481500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2011-02-22 01:07:49.282993500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-12753.cdiff from database.clamav.net

Thanks.

[Fumetto]

http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Error_Messages
Ignore the message. CLAMAV will fix itself on its own. The message is from CLAMAV saying it can't reach the updates. The messages will go away once they can be reached.



... and

in the message/log where you read "This version of ClamAV engine is outdated" you should read also "DON'T PANIC"
(cit.)

[steve288]

Thanks for your reply.

I think your right on the "mirror" issue that failed to fetch updates,
but the message
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
2011-02-22 01:07:49.259749500 WARNING: Local version: 0.96.4 Recommended version: 0.97

I think this means that the engine to run  the db is not the latest???  Am I wrong ?? And that this component needs to be manually installed.

I have seen this before and had to update the version "manually". I think, that this update must be done by me, and does not happen automatically. Again am I wrong ??

Im not paniced but I know that eventually I will need to update this version as older versions will eventually be migraged out. Again my understading is that the Versions  need to be done by me. The rest is automatic.
Am I wrong ?

thanks

[Stefano]

01:07:49.259754500 DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq

you already have the answer

[byte]

WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
2011-02-22 01:07:49.259749500 WARNING: Local version: 0.96.4 Recommended version: 0.97

I think this means that the engine to run  the db is not the latest???  Am I wrong ?? And that this component needs to be manually installed.

The latest ClamAV has never needed to be manually installed, have a look at this bug:

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6531

[steve288]

Thanks.
I did actually go to the clam web site as I always try read errors carfully, and went to the web site like it indicated. I read it through but it didn really answer the question for me or I missed it.  In fact using yum like it suggested, failed.  But I guess the repositories for our sw were not there.

As far as the bug report, I saw that but it concluded with...
          > and why doesn't it update automatically?
            No, as most system administrators do not like automatic updates. 

Which kind of confused me.

But being around SME for a while and haveing gone through this before. I think what I understand is that the new version is being tested, and while it is still in testing the error about the version will crop up. I guess it will go away when it finishes testing and is moved to the repositories for Gold versions of updates.

Thanks again.

[byte]

As far as the bug report, I saw that but it concluded with...
          > and why doesn't it update automatically?
            No, as most system administrators do not like automatic updates. 

Which kind of confused me.

Once the ClamAV has been verified it will then be moved to smeupdates and then become an automatic update.  I think the automatic update could be why doesn't it automatically update like the antivirus updates happen, but I could be wrong.

[steve288]

Thank you.

[chris burnat]

Latest Clamav and associated packages should be available in the update repo in a few days.