Re: clamav virus db update

[ha...@t-online.de]

>> I had to reboot my FreeBSD mail server and noticed something unusual. As 
>> the boot messages scrolled by on the console, libclamav complained that 
>> the virus databases were more than 7 days old and should be updated. I 
>> have a cron job for that, but what the heck I ran freshclam as soon as the 
>> system came up and it told me everything was up to date. As luck would 
>> have it, I had to reboot again shortly after, and the same libclamav 
>> complaint about the databases being out of date came up. Ran freshclam 
>> again, and it said everything was fine.
>> 
>> Any explanation?
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> -John (john@os2.dhs.org)
>> 
>> 
a vague guess: your battery clock is off by a week, and clamav starts before ntp
has had a chance to set the correct time from the internet....

Wolfgang Hamann