[CentOS] Centos 6 : ClamAV out-of-date ???

Mon Aug 11 12:39:12 UTC 2014
Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net>

On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 11:37 +0000, Richard wrote:

> > From: Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net>

> >  Last Status:
> >     WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> >     WARNING: Local version: 0.98.3 Recommended version: 0.98.4
> > 
> >  : freshclam -V
> > ClamAV 0.98.4/19275/Sun Aug 10 17:26:35 2014
> > 
> >  : clamd -V
> > ClamAV 0.98.4/19275/Sun Aug 10 17:26:35 2014
> > 
> >  : rpm -qa clam\*
> > clamd-0.98.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64
> > clamav-db-0.98.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64
> > clamav-0.98.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64


> Make certain that your freshclam process has been restarted since
> being updated. In some environments freshclam runs from a cron.daily
> script, but it can also be set up to run as a "daemon" (I start mine
> with an @reboot crontab entry, but it is sometimes in rc.local). In
> the "daemon" case you have to explicitly stop and restart it as the
> rpm update process doesn't handle that.

Thank you. Your advice solved the riddle.

 : ps -A|grep fresh

showed Freshclam was running. Killed it. Stopped and restarted clamd.

 : logwatch --range today

shows the problem has been resolved.  Freshclam updates are run by CRON.

Many thanks Richard.



-- 
Regards,

Paul.
England, EU.

   Centos, Exim, Apache, Libre Office.
   Linux is the future. Micro$oft is the past.