micah wrote: > Are there any signals I can send to clamd to tell it to reload its config > files? I've tried -HUP, -USR1 and -USR2, and I don't see anything in clamd > (8) about a command that clamd can take to reload configs (only reloading > database files). > > Do I really need to interrupt the clamav scanning stream by issuing a > full restart to get it to change a config variable?
No full restart necessary. You can signal clamd to reload is signature files by using either of the following methods: kill -USR2 xxxx (xxxx = clamd pid) or, via perl if using a LocalSocket: perl -MIO::Socket::UNIX -we '$s = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(shift); $s->print("RELOAD"); print $s->getline; $s->close' /path/to/clamd.sock Bill _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html