/etc/cron.hourly/freshclam failing

[Former user]

I've been getting this error message since today:

Subject: Cron <root@97957c4171a0>    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/freshclam exited with return code 58

[James Mills]

Same here

[Alexander]

I had this issue as well and it's very easy to fix: delete mirrors.dat from <your-data-directory>/var/clamav

The reason why this happens is the following: There are a numbers of mirrors of download servers. If a mirror fails, it's added to a fail list. If this list is full and no working mirrors are left, the update fails. BUT: The problem is that a mirror may only have a temporary failure and thus the list may get full very quickly. If the mirrors.dat that contains the failing mirrors is cleared, all mirrors are retested.

[James Mills]

In a world where many of us now run infra as Docker containers/services how do you propose we handle this?

Should I have an alarm that triggers some automation that docker exec's into the container and nukes the path(s)? Should those paths just be ephemeral volumes and I just restarted the service?

James Mills / prologic

E: [e-mail] W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

[SH]

Duplicate of #225.