{"id":4210,"date":"2026-06-08T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4210"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:00:13","slug":"how-to-perform-fsaua-virus-pattern-database-reset-in-linux-based-products","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/how-to-perform-fsaua-virus-pattern-database-reset-in-linux-based-products\/","title":{"rendered":"How to perform FSAUA virus pattern database reset in Linux based products"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How can I perform FSAUA database reset in WithSecure Linux based products?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>Steps to do FSAUA database reset are different for each of the following WithSecure Linux based products.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux Security Full \/ Command-line Edition version 11.xx<\/li>\n<li>Linux Gateway version 5.xx<\/li>\n<li>Policy Manager for Linux version 12.xx\/13.xx<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can refer to the following detailed instructions for each product<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Note:<\/span><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">All steps require root privileges<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Latest fsdbupdate9.run can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/download.f-secure.com\/latest\/fsdbupdate9.run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">Linux Gateway<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Run the following command in the environment installed with Linux Gateway. This will force the F-Secure Automatic Update Agent (AUA) to download again all database packages.<br \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># cd \/opt\/f-secure\/fsigk; make stop<br \/># ps -efl | grep fsupdated\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>(check the running status of fsupdated process) <\/span><\/span><br \/># kill &lt;PID of remaining fsupdated process&gt; \u00a0\u00a0(if there is any remaining one, kill it)<br \/># rm -rf \/opt\/f-secure\/fsigk\/fsaua\/data\/content\/*<br \/># cd \/opt\/f-secure\/fsigk; make start<br \/># \/opt\/f-secure\/fsigk\/dbupdate \u00a0(with internet access)<br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">\u00a0or<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># \/opt\/f-secure\/fsigk\/dbupdate fsdbupdate9.run<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 (without internet access)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">Policy Manager for Linux version 12.40 and older<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Run the following command in the environment installed with Linux Policy Manager Server. This will force the F-Secure Automatic Update Agent (AUA) and F-Secure Automatic Update Server (AUS) to download again all database packages.<br \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># \/etc\/init.d\/fsaua stop<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms stop (check the running status of F-Secure process. if there is any remaining one, kill it)<\/span><\/span><br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaua\/data\/content\/*<br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaus\/data\/db<br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaus\/data\/misc<br \/># rm -f \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fspms\/logs\/fspms-fsauasc.state<br \/># rm -f \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaua\/data\/subscriptions\/*<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fsaua start<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms start<br \/># sudo -u fspms \/opt\/f-secure\/fspms\/bin\/fsavupd \u2013debug\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (with internet access)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">\u00a0or<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># .\/fsdbupdate9.run<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u3000<span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">(without internet access)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">Policy Manager for Linux version 13.00 and above<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Run the following command in the environment installed with Linux Policy Manager Server. This will force GUTS2 to download again all database packages.<br \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms stop (check the running status of F-Secure process. if there is any remaining one, kill it)<br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fspms\/data\/guts2\/*<br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaus\/data\/db<br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaus\/data\/misc<br \/># rm -f \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fspms\/logs\/fspms-fsauasc.state<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fspms start<\/div>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><b><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">Linux Security Full Edition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Run the following command in the environment installed with Linux Security. This will force the F-Secure Automatic Update Agent (AUA) to download again all database packages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># \/etc\/init.d\/fsma stop<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fsaua stop<br \/># ps -efl | grep fsupdated\u00a0\u00a0 (check the running status of fsupdated process)<br \/># kill &lt;PID of remaining fsupdated process&gt; \u00a0\u00a0(if there is any remaining one, kill it)<\/span><\/span><br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaua\/data\/content\/*<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fsaua start<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fsma start<br \/># dbupdate<\/span>\u3000<span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">(with internet access)<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">\u00a0or<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># dbupdate fsdbupdate9.run<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u3000<span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">(without internet access)<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"><b>Linux Security Command-line Edition<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Run the following command in the environment installed with Linux Security. This will force the F-Secure Automatic Update Agent (AUA) to download again all database packages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># \/etc\/init.d\/fsaua stop<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fsupdate stop<br \/># ps -efl | grep fsupdated\u00a0\u00a0 (check the running status of fsupdated process)<br \/># kill &lt;PID of remaining fsupdated process&gt; \u00a0\u00a0(if there is any remaining one, kill it)<br \/># rm -rf \/var\/opt\/f-secure\/fsaua\/data\/content\/*<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fsaua start<br \/># \/etc\/init.d\/fsupdate start<br \/># dbupdate<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u3000<span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">(with internet access)<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">\u00a0or<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"># dbupdate fsdbupdate9.run<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u3000<span style=\"color: #0D0D0D;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">(without internet access)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steps performing FSAUA database reset in F-Secure Linux based products<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-4210","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005838","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:00:13","import_hash":"d6d7ab6a1f3d8676db0d7a2668427ddfe2ceffa6","vanilla_article_id":32370,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32370-how-to-perform-fsaua-virus-pattern-database-reset-in-linux-based-products","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":103,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}