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What about a freshclam cache. Many users probably have several if not many servers all running clamav. If we had a freshcached daemon running on a secure server we could point all other servers to that cache. Or better yet have that daemon notify a list of clamd's on different machines that there is an update. There are pros and cons with all the suggestions so far but I think this one has more pros than cons. Also it should not be to hard to implement and give us time to come up with a better approach. If we currently have four servers checking every hour. With a cache, just one update (through both our and clamav's valuable banmdwidth) causes four machines to get updated. The other three only eat up internal network bandwidth. Since clamd has support for digital signatures all the internal servers can be happy that the cache is actually dishing out good stuff. Using this we could even change the update rate to once every 15 minutes and still use the same bandwidth. If internal notification is problematic ( or even just meantime to get it going) the internal servers could poll the cache checking every 5 minutes. Although there are lots of pros and cons :- You lose the cache -> no server updates Losing your secure server -> you are in bigger trouble than just not getting mail There is one thing I like about this ; with the updates controlled by one process, the clamd updates can standardise. Changing the update mechanism only means changing the freshcached code. On a standalone system a clamd process would have its own freshcached process. Do it the unix way -> "split the problem into separate processes that do their job and only their job the best way possible". Jim :-) Dr James Allen GnuPG key : ftp://ftp.heartsine.co.uk/hst_gpg_public_keys/jim.allen.hst.gpg.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBId+xRdAZy0oJ0LwRAkv2AJ4wail16X9MZpdyoEoAlTff2PfKCgCeIk8r UwuVqA+hqOM29fkYzepBy+M= =ter8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
