On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:30 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 09 April 2009 15:01:37 George Negoita wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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.
>
> Thanks, both of you. I did wonder if it was a generated file, but couldn't
> see the need for the rpmnew if it was. I'll need to carefully go through the
> /etc/clamd.conf.rpmnew, though. A quick look tells me I've lost the mailto,
> so I need to check what else has changed.
And this is where vimdiff is your best friend... ;)
-I
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