> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dennis Peterson > Sent: vrijdag 22 december 2006 15:15 > To: ClamAV users ML > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] DB Update email before actual > update available? > > >> Looking at my options there... > > > > Why not just run freshclam as a daemon? > > Then you really need to have a daemon watcher to keep it going.
That's a "Goedelian" issue that always exists. Even with cron you'd need a meta watchdog to see if cron is still up. And a watchdog to watch the watchdog, etc; ad infinitum. At some point (you really have no choice in the matter, actually) you just gonna have to trust your one meta watchdog to run properly. A daemon watcher that actually probes the daemons is useful anyway. For clamd, I run a few lines of Perl, every 5 minutes, (from within the meta watchdog) to see if I actually get "Eicar-Test-Signature" back on a test, so as to ensure clamd does not hang. Which has never happened, btw. Clamd has a "Self checking" as well, btw (and I wouldn't be surprised if freshclam has, too). > At some point you just have to step back and take a simple approach, > especially when it's a simple problem. Exactly. :) - Mark _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
