On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 04:02:22 +0300 (MSK)
"Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 7-___-2005 08:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J McDonald) wrote to
> Clamav Users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>:
>
> >> DJM> run freshclam,
> >> What does freshclam such, that I can't reproduce manually (for
> >> example,
> >> by simple placing updated bases into ClamAV directories)?
> DJM> You can't validate the cvd's you receive manually,
>
> This is my own headache - how much I trust my ways. Especially, this is
> not headache, if bases signed by something like PGP keys.
>
> DJM> so you wouldn't know,
> DJM> until you fired up the scanner, whether you had valid cvd's.
> DJM> if you are running clamd, you can't manually signal it that it has fresh
> DJM> data - you could restart it, or hope that it picks it up on the hourly
> DJM> check.
>
> Stop. Does this sentence mean, that I may just copy (received) .cvd
> files into ClamAV directories and at next (re)start they will be used
> without using freshclam? Also: does this sentence mean, that ClamAV loads
> all ~3M of bases into memory and doesn't more accesses base files?
You can certainly put the .cvd files in the correct location to get
up-to-date databases. In another article SIGUSR2 was advertised to
notice clamd about the update.
Bye
Racke
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