On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:09:36AM -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: > 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.
I know. And if that fails for some unknown reason, it will happily continue using the old database while VERSION reports the new one. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
