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? 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/20090409/850d346b/attachment-0002.sig>
Anne Wilson 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?As those are binary files, diff doesn't really work. Those are db4(?) database files, you should be able to view them with the db_dump utility. Which doesn't really matter, as those will get overwritten by the next freshclam run anyway. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090409/071d1fbe/attachment-0002.sig>
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. -- George Negoita System Administrator iMedia Plus Group