Marc Haber said: > 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
And you're certain the database has not been reloaded while you're examining this? dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
