Gerard wrote: > On Friday August 31, 2007 at 12:05:58 (PM) Dennis Peterson wrote: > > [snip] > >> A proper script will send clamd a reload command on completion of >> downloading, testing, and distributing third party files. This can be as >> simple as sending kill -USR2 to the clamd PID, or using either the clamd >> tcpip or Unix socket to send a reload command. > > You are misreading the question. I never said anything about manually > forcing a reload of the data base. I am inquiring as to why clamav no > longer seems to be checking and reloading the signature files on its > own. The clamd.log shows an entry "Self checking every 1800 seconds"; > therefore I am sure that the clamd daemon is aware of that setting. > For whatever reason, it does not appear to be observing it though. I > am not sure, but I believe the older versions of clamav did not have > this problem. At least I do not remember it. > >
The current version hasn't a problem with this that I'm aware of either, but regardless, the suggestion made removes any dependancy on that process. Feel free to ignore it. But to offer some troubleshooting, are you manually forcing the reload more often than 1800 seconds? And if so I wonder if that resets the 1800 second counter to zero. dp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
