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[clamav-users] freshclam -V output
Hello,

I have read through the archives and could not find a solution. Also I apologize in advance as this might be dumb question. We have our monitoring setup to check the update status from the output of `freshclam -V`. We are using clamav on Ubuntu and CentOS. We cannot figure out what controls the output behavior described below.

This is what we have always seen:
(CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core))
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.98.7/25387/Wed Mar 13 11:24:46 2019

This is the problem we are facing when porting over to Ubuntu
(Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS)
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.99.4

OR
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.100.2

As you can see its lacking what we believe is the ‘latest definitions update time’. I see the man page says `-V` should just be version so I am not sure how we are getting that time stamp. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Sean Clark <> Sr Network Engineer
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output [ In reply to ]
Hello Sean,


Le 14/03/2019 à 13:53, Sean Clark via clamav-users a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I have read through the archives and could not find a solution. Also I
> apologize in advance as this might be dumb question.  We have our
> monitoring setup to check the update status from the output of
> `freshclam -V`. We are using clamav on Ubuntu and CentOS. We cannot
> figure out what controls the output behavior described below.
>
> *This is what we have always seen:*
>
> (CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core))
>
> $ freshclam -V
>
> ClamAV 0.98.7/25387/Wed Mar 13 11:24:46 2019
>
> *This is the problem we are facing when porting over to Ubuntu*
>
> (Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS)
>
> $ freshclam -V
>
> ClamAV 0.99.4
>
> OR
>
> $ freshclam -V
>
> ClamAV 0.100.2
>
> As you can see its lacking what we believe is the ‘latest definitions
> update time’. I see the man page says `-V` should just be version so I
> am not sure how we are getting that time stamp. Any thoughts on this?
>

It happens when the virus database is not (already) loaded in memory
and/or when clamdscan client cannot connect to clamd daemon (tcp or
socket problem).

--
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Arnaud Jacques
Gérant de SecuriteInfo.com

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Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output [ In reply to ]
Arnaud,

Thank you so much for the direction! I am still having problems. I get a server working, but I try to apply what I thought was the fix to other servers and it does not work. I am missing the target ???? Could you/or someone help me with the failure scenarios?


* the virus database is not (already) loaded in memory

How do I verify for this?


* when clamdscan client cannot connect to clamd daemon
$ps -aux | grep clam
sean.cl+ 372 0.0 0.0 13136 1052 pts/0 S+ 11:48 0:00 grep clam
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.100.2

I don’t see any daemon running on the servers that are working and not working. What are the connection details for this? Just to recap the problem statement is that ‘freshclam -V’ does not have the right output.

Thanks,

Sean Clark <> Sr Network Engineer
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
ServiceNow <> office 425-305-2269

From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net> on behalf of Arnaud Jacques <webmaster@securiteinfo.com>
Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 9:43 AM
To: "clamav-users@lists.clamav.net" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output

[External Email]

Hello Sean,

Le 14/03/2019 à 13:53, Sean Clark via clamav-users a écrit :
Hello,

I have read through the archives and could not find a solution. Also I apologize in advance as this might be dumb question. We have our monitoring setup to check the update status from the output of `freshclam -V`. We are using clamav on Ubuntu and CentOS. We cannot figure out what controls the output behavior described below.

This is what we have always seen:
(CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core))
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.98.7/25387/Wed Mar 13 11:24:46 2019

This is the problem we are facing when porting over to Ubuntu
(Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS)
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.99.4

OR
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.100.2

As you can see its lacking what we believe is the ‘latest definitions update time’. I see the man page says `-V` should just be version so I am not sure how we are getting that time stamp. Any thoughts on this?

It happens when the virus database is not (already) loaded in memory and/or when clamdscan client cannot connect to clamd daemon (tcp or socket problem).



--

Cordialement / Best regards,



Arnaud Jacques

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Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output [ In reply to ]
Sean,

Here is the resolution I applied when I get this problem (on Debian OS) :

# clamdscan -V
ClamAV 0.100.0
(not information about loaded databases)

vi /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.socket.d/extend.conf
[Socket]
ListenStream=127.0.0.1:3310
(check if the 2 above lines are present)

systemctl --system daemon-reload
systemctl restart clamav-daemon.socket
systemctl restart clamav-daemon.service

vi /etc/clamav/clamd.conf
TCPSocket 3310
TCPAddr 127.0.0.1

/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon restart
(it worked at this point).

Hope it helps....


Le 20/03/2019 à 13:12, Sean Clark via clamav-users a écrit :
>
> Arnaud,
>
> Thank you so much for the direction! I am still having problems. I get
> a server working, but I try to apply what I thought was the fix to
> other servers and it does not work. I am missing the target ???? Could
> you/or someone help me with the failure scenarios?
>
> * the virus database is not (already) loaded in memory
>
> How do I verify for this?
>
> * when clamdscan client cannot connect to clamd daemon
>
> $ps -aux | grep clam
>
> sean.cl+ 372  0.0  0.0  13136  1052 pts/0    S+   11:48   0:00 grep clam
>
> $ freshclam -V
>
> ClamAV 0.100.2
>
> I don’t see any daemon running on the servers that are working and not
> working. What are the connection details for this? Just to recap the
> problem statement is that ‘freshclam -V’ does not have the right output.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean Clark <>  Sr Network Engineer
>
> “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
>
> ServiceNow <> office 425-305-2269
>
> *From: *clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net> on behalf
> of Arnaud Jacques <webmaster@securiteinfo.com>
> *Reply-To: *ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 9:43 AM
> *To: *"clamav-users@lists.clamav.net" <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output
>
> *[External Email]*
>
> **
>
> Hello Sean,
>
> Le 14/03/2019 à 13:53, Sean Clark via clamav-users a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I have read through the archives and could not find a solution.
> Also I apologize in advance as this might be dumb question.  We
> have our monitoring setup to check the update status from the
> output of `freshclam -V`. We are using clamav on Ubuntu and
> CentOS. We cannot figure out what controls the output behavior
> described below.
>
> *This is what we have always seen:*
>
> (CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core))
>
> $ freshclam -V
>
> ClamAV 0.98.7/25387/Wed Mar 13 11:24:46 2019
>
> *This is the problem we are facing when porting over to Ubuntu*
>
> (Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS)
>
> $ freshclam -V
>
> ClamAV 0.99.4
>
> OR
>
> $ freshclam -V
>
> ClamAV 0.100.2
>
> As you can see its lacking what we believe is the ‘latest
> definitions update time’. I see the man page says `-V` should just
> be version so I am not sure how we are getting that time stamp.
> Any thoughts on this?
>
>
> It happens when the virus database is not (already) loaded in memory
> and/or when clamdscan client cannot connect to clamd daemon (tcp or
> socket problem).
>
>
> --
> Cordialement / Best regards,
> Arnaud Jacques
> Gérant de SecuriteInfo.com
> Téléphone : +33-(0)3.44.39.76.46
> E-mail :aj@securiteinfo.com <mailto:aj@securiteinfo.com>
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Cordialement / Best regards,

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Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output [ In reply to ]
Arnaud,

I now understand that we do not run the daemon. We update and scan from cron. I stumbled on a work around I *think*

$ sigtool --version
ClamAV 0.99.4/25394/Wed Mar 20 07:52:02 2019

VS

$freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.99.4

Thanks,

Sean Clark <> Sr Network Engineer
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
ServiceNow <> office 425-305-2269

From: Arnaud Jacques <webmaster@securiteinfo.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 9:32 AM
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Cc: Sean Clark <Sean.Clark@servicenow.com>, Alexandru Cojan <alexandru.cojan@servicenow.com>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output

[External Email]

Sean,

Here is the resolution I applied when I get this problem (on Debian OS) :

# clamdscan -V
ClamAV 0.100.0
(not information about loaded databases)

vi /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.socket.d/extend.conf
[Socket]
ListenStream=127.0.0.1:3310
(check if the 2 above lines are present)

systemctl --system daemon-reload
systemctl restart clamav-daemon.socket
systemctl restart clamav-daemon.service

vi /etc/clamav/clamd.conf
TCPSocket 3310
TCPAddr 127.0.0.1

/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon restart
(it worked at this point).

Hope it helps....

Le 20/03/2019 à 13:12, Sean Clark via clamav-users a écrit :
Arnaud,

Thank you so much for the direction! I am still having problems. I get a server working, but I try to apply what I thought was the fix to other servers and it does not work. I am missing the target ???? Could you/or someone help me with the failure scenarios?


* the virus database is not (already) loaded in memory

How do I verify for this?


* when clamdscan client cannot connect to clamd daemon
$ps -aux | grep clam
sean.cl+ 372 0.0 0.0 13136 1052 pts/0 S+ 11:48 0:00 grep clam
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.100.2

I don’t see any daemon running on the servers that are working and not working. What are the connection details for this? Just to recap the problem statement is that ‘freshclam -V’ does not have the right output.

Thanks,

Sean Clark <> Sr Network Engineer
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
ServiceNow <> office 425-305-2269

From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net><mailto:clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net> on behalf of Arnaud Jacques <webmaster@securiteinfo.com><mailto:webmaster@securiteinfo.com>
Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net><mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 9:43 AM
To: "clamav-users@lists.clamav.net"<mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net><mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] freshclam -V output

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Hello Sean,


Le 14/03/2019 à 13:53, Sean Clark via clamav-users a écrit :
Hello,

I have read through the archives and could not find a solution. Also I apologize in advance as this might be dumb question. We have our monitoring setup to check the update status from the output of `freshclam -V`. We are using clamav on Ubuntu and CentOS. We cannot figure out what controls the output behavior described below.

This is what we have always seen:
(CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core))
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.98.7/25387/Wed Mar 13 11:24:46 2019

This is the problem we are facing when porting over to Ubuntu
(Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS)
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.99.4

OR
$ freshclam -V
ClamAV 0.100.2

As you can see its lacking what we believe is the ‘latest definitions update time’. I see the man page says `-V` should just be version so I am not sure how we are getting that time stamp. Any thoughts on this?

It happens when the virus database is not (already) loaded in memory and/or when clamdscan client cannot connect to clamd daemon (tcp or socket problem).




--

Cordialement / Best regards,



Arnaud Jacques

Gérant de SecuriteInfo.com



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