On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:37:43PM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:31:17 +0200 in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc Haber > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:26:05AM -0700, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > What he needs to do is write a perl script that connects to the > > > local clamd socket and prints "VERSION" and then look at the > > > resulting reply. > > > > NACK, clamd accesses the database file as well when VERSION is > > received on the socket, and reports back immediately the new database > > number even if it has not been loaded according to the log. > > Except that then it will have been loaded and this information will > have been entered in the log.
Looks like you have more faith in things than I have. All software sucks, why should clamav be the exception? > Clamd only reloads the database when it > has some work to do, clamdscan -V being "some work" obviously. NACK, clamdscan -V doesn't talk to the daemon _at_ _all_, so this doesn't qualify as "some work". > You might ask the developers to change the database reloaded message to > include the version number, as long as that doesn't break anything I > don't see why this should not be done. The developers don't at least read here? Well, at least Debian has a bug (#323803) about it. 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
