On Thursday 09 April 2009 15:01:37 George Negoita wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > > I'm puzzled by such statements as > > > > diff /var/clamav/daily.cvd /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew > > Binary files /var/clamav/daily.cvd and /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew > > differ > > > > I thought the point of rpmnew files was so that we could check what has > > been changed? > > You can check to see what has been changed, since you have both > versions, but you should use a tool that can compare binary files (if > that makes any sense to you). > > In your case, you can safely delete daily.cvd.rpmnew, because, most > probable, freshclam already updated daily.cvd to a newer version. Thanks, both of you. I did wonder if it was a generated file, but couldn't see the need for the rpmnew if it was. I'll need to carefully go through the /etc/clamd.conf.rpmnew, though. A quick look tells me I've lost the mailto, so I need to check what else has changed. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090409/e304ed5b/attachment-0005.sig>