Re: ClamAV installation required?

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
> inner my cronjob with 'freshclam start' on end 'freshclam stop' - not as
> daemon

Do you have a good reason *not* to use the daemon ?

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
> Then on each Upgrade Ubuntu replaces my whole permissions for ClamAV and
> with this, ClamAV didn't work anymore, so I always need to restore my own
> Permissions to get ClamAV working again.

On my machine the files in /var/lib/clamav are all owned by
     clamav:clamav

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> It seems the "Ubunturized" ClamAV Version don't check the downloaded
> signature files (I have enabled this option in my freshclam.conf), in the
> original ClamAV this always happen and is logged into freshclam.log - for
> each Database file
> I don't know if this feature isn't implemented on Ubuntu side, or it isn't
> logged only.

# sudo grep 10:38: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> TTL: 911
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> fc_dns_query_update_info: Software version from DNS: 1.0.9
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> check_for_new_database_version: Local copy of daily found: daily.cld.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> query_remote_database_version: daily.cvd version from DNS: 27701
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> daily database available for update (local version: 27700, remote version: 27701)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> Retrieving https://database.clamav.net/daily-27701.cdiff
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> downloadFile: Download source: https://database.clamav.net/daily-27701.cdiff
Wed Jul 16 10:38:26 2025 -> downloadFile: Download destination: ./clamav-dc76e36b77e4563bc81714a692beedf5.tmp
Wed Jul 16 10:38:27 2025 -> updatedb: Running g_cb_download_complete callback...
Wed Jul 16 10:38:27 2025 -> Loading signatures from /var/lib/clamav/tmp.869e3d53df/clamav-469526fcf1c0cda76712650bfacb28c2.tmp-daily.cld
Wed Jul 16 10:38:51 2025 -> Properly loaded 2075836 signatures from /var/lib/clamav/tmp.869e3d53df/clamav-469526fcf1c0cda76712650bfacb28c2.tmp-daily.cld
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> daily.cld updated (version: 27701, sigs: 2075836, f-level: 90, builder: raynman)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> fc_update_database: daily.cld updated.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> check_for_new_database_version: Local copy of main found: main.cvd.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> query_remote_database_version: main.cvd version from DNS: 62
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> main.cvd database is up-to-date (version: 62, sigs: 6647427, f-level: 90, builder: sigmgr)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> fc_update_database: main.cvd already up-to-date.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> check_for_new_database_version: Local copy of bytecode found: bytecode.cld.
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> query_remote_database_version: bytecode.cvd version from DNS: 336
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> bytecode.cld database is up-to-date (version: 336, sigs: 83, f-level: 90, builder: nrandolp)
Wed Jul 16 10:38:52 2025 -> fc_update_database: bytecode.cld already up-to-date.

Does that have the missing downloaded signature file checks ?


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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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