Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Need help on clamav database mirroring.

Benny Pedersen via clamav-users <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:18:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.user
Organization junc.eu
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Khedkar, Atish via clamav-users skrev den 2025-07-25 16:20:
> Hello @Joel Esler, I have gone through the shared link before asking
> the question. I understood we can create mirror repo using freshclam
> or cvdupdate. The freshclam sync only cvd and cld files. However, I
> want use cvdupdate to sync cvd and cdiff (patch) files. That’s why
> questions was around cvdupdate. As per the documentation, I believe
> that cvdupdate does not allow to customize the database URL and skip
> dns.txt file. Please let me know I had missed anything.

# cat /etc/freshclam.conf
Bytecode disabled
ExcludeDatabase = "main", "daily"
DatabaseCustomURL = "http://example.org/sanesecurity/sanesecurity.ftm", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_all.cdb", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_all.ndb", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_filename.cdb", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_generic.cdb", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_js.cdb", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_js.ndb", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_links.ldb", 
"http://example.org/sanesecurity/foxhole_mail.cdb"

all example.org is your own server

sadly i have not seen many virus hits on my own servers so i disabled 
all signatures and keep what is usefull from 3dr party

hope its helpfull, more help show clamconf
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