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Re: [Clamav-users] Some question on freshclam

From: Dennis Peterson <dennispe_at_nospam>
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 13:48:23 GMT
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>

Pieter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw indeed that this info is shown upon running freshclam. However I do
> not want to trigger an update to the servers. I only want this info. Just
> running freshclam will add more load to your pattern file servers which is
> not needed in this case. Hence the request ...
>
> Kind regards
> Pieter

Use DNS to query the current available database version:

dig TXT current.cvd.clamav.net

It will return the TXT record. Here's an example: 0.91.2:44:4533:1192196066:1

ClamAV version: 0.91.2
main.cvd version: 44
daily.cvd version: 4533
Unix time of update: 1192196066 (Oct 12, 2007 at 06:34:26 in my timezone)

dp

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