Marc Haber said: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:30:38AM -0500, René Berber wrote: >> Marc Haber wrote: >> > the clamd docs say quite clearly that it is necessary to either send >> > the RELOAD command to the daemon or to send SIGUSR2 to the daemon to >> > have it reload the database. >> > >> > However, the VERSION command and clamdscan -V report the new database >> > version immediately after putting the new databases in place. >> >> By "putting" you mean using freshclam? > > No. I mean dropping new databases in place manually especially to test > the behavior in this situation.
You do know clamd does a self-check every n seconds where n is declared in the clamd.conf file? Even if you do nothing it will become aware of new pattern files, on average, in n/2 seconds. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
