Topic: ClamAV update failed

[bosco555]

HI all,

Been receiving failed update for clamav database..Is there an issue with clamav?

2021-11-01 13:04:10.698899500 ClamAV update process started at Mon Nov  1 13:04:10 2021
2021-11-01 13:04:10.699099500 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
2021-11-01 13:04:10.699118500 WARNING: Local version: 0.100.2 Recommended version: 0.103.3
2021-11-01 13:04:10.699119500 DON'T PANIC! Read https://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav
2021-11-01 13:04:10.815258500 ERROR: getfile: Unknown response from database.clamav.net (IP: 104.16.219.84): HTTP/1.1 403
2021-11-01 13:04:10.815419500 ERROR: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
2021-11-01 13:04:11.079928500 Giving up on database.clamav.net...
2021-11-01 13:04:11.079949500 Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /etc/freshclam.conf is working. Check https://www.clamav.net/documents/official-mirror-faq for possible reasons.

Thanks

[ReetP]

At a guess you are on v9, though you haven't mentioned it.

This has been known for some while if you had kept abreast of news.

So your solution is to upgrade.

That's it.

See No. 3. in my sig.

[bosco555]

Maybe, just maybe, you might want to drop the attitude.

I can't upgrade at the moment and there are reasons for that.

Thanks for nothing..

[ReetP]

Maybe, just maybe, you might want to drop the attitude.

I have just stated some facts.

You could have done some reading, seen what was happening, and answered your question yourself. There are tons of posts on all this. We have said repeatedly over a long period that v9 is EOL and please don't ask questions about it unless they are on upgrading.

If you had got involved and helped like some have, you would have been aware of this.

I can't upgrade at the moment and there are reasons for that.

You have had a year to do it so I am not sure what you expect?

A small group of us worked really hard over a long period to make sure that you didn't get in this position.

In any event, this was not our choice. ClamAV decided to stop supporting the software, so please direct your ire at them.

Thanks for nothing..

There is nothing we can do. We have done all we can. The only person to blame is yourself.

[bclayton]

For what's its worth, for the last 2 or 3 days, I have been getting the same errors.  And, I am running a fully-updated v10 server.

I ran this command:
[root@provue-server ~]# yum list clamav
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, post-transaction-actions, priorities, smeserver
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: ewr.edge.kernel.org
 * smecontribs: mirror.canada.pialasse.com
 * smeupdates: mirror.canada.pialasse.com
 * updates: mirror.umd.edu
Installed Packages
clamav.x86_64                     0.103.3-8.el7                      @smeupdates
[root@provue-server ~]#

and it seems the correct version of clamav is installed.  Not sure what is going on.  Maybe something in a recent update?

[ReetP]

For what's its worth, for the last 2 or 3 days, I have been getting the same errors.  And, I am running a fully-updated v10 server.

No note of your log, but unrelated.

You have v10 & 0.103.x

Original problem is v9 +this:

Local version: 0.100.2 Recommended version: 0.103.3

Please either open a separate thread or a bug and post your log.

[bclayton]

Sorry.  Will do.  I was thinking the issues might be related.

[TerryF]

often have occasional connectivity issues with updates from down here, Oz, of late been all good

[magwm]

I wanted to share my solution for this problem:

on another server, install cvdupdate https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/cvdupdate
you will need python 3.6 and apache
you will need to configure the database directory as your (home) directory served by apache
you will need to run "cvd update" in a cron job

on the sme9 server, add the following lines to freshclam.conf:

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PrivateMirror YourNewServer
and freshclam will update from there.


IF, like me, you have reused some other apache and want to serve these files from a different port (8282), use the following in freshclam.conf: 

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DatabaseMirror yournewserver:8282
PrivateMirror yournewserver:8282
HTTPProxyServer yournewserver
HTTPProxyPort 8282

I remind you that once you have tested the correct configuration, you will need to create a new fragment to save those settings, for example

/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/freshclam.conf/PrivateMirror

and then

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expand-template /etc/freshclam.conf

folks, yes I know we have to update, and yes I have moved services to a sme10 instance, but some service I still have on sme9 and I haven't really had the possibility to move them.