On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:30 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. And this is where vimdiff is your best friend... ;) -I