On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:37:19 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:31:55PM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: > > Does clamdscan do the same thing then? > > > > I've just tried that and it reports a version, presumably supplied > > by clamd. > > clamdscan -V doesn't communicate with the daemon at all, it opens the > configuration file, presumably finds out where the databases are > located and then accesses the daily.cvd before printing the version > number. Are you sure about that? It does seem a very odd thing to do when the very point of clamdscan is to pass work to clamd. OK, I've just straced it and it does seem to do just that. I think you're back to looking at the syslog output and asking for the database version to be included in that in future releases. -- Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk GnuPG key ID DE32E5C5 - http://wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
