On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 14:42 +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 lists wrote: > > > Probably silly questions > > They're not silly questions, and the ClamAV documentation should have > answered them all without you having to ask them. > > > trying to get an idea of what goes on under the hood: > > You can see exactly what goes on under the hood if you read the source > but that requires a fairly high level of programming skill. > > Unless you are sure it doesn't matter (and your subject line indicates > the is not the case:), you should always say exactly what versions of > the software you are using. If you don't say which hood, there's no > way anybody can know what goes on under it. For example there were a > few problems with database files and directories in version 0.93. > > > 1.What is the difference between cvd-v-cld? > > You can delete the .cvd files. In fact you can delete them all, and > let freshclam fetch the latest versions, but that's extra load on the > servers which you don't need to add. > > It seems you already know that cvd files are compressed, as in your > second question you talk about unpacking cvd files. You don't need > the packed versions after unpacking. There is no .cvd file on any > of my systems, I think they were deleted by the update processes but > to be honest I can't remember if I did it myself or not. > > I did this Google search: > > http://www.google.co.uk/#q="daily.cld"+"daily.cvd"; > > and this was the second hit: > > http://old.nabble.com/daily.cld-not-updating-on-remote-hosts-td20669045.html > > > 2. If the .cvd's are still used, does clam unpack them and put them > > elsewhere - or does it extract them on start up? > > Using Linux, at a shell prompt type > > man freshclam.conf > > and it explains that the database is kept uncompressed by default. All > the databases are kept in the database directory. There's only one. > > > 3. If I create my own sigs (.ndb etc) > > a. Where would I put them? {can I define a custom directory that clam > > will look in?} > > Put them in the database directory. You could have more than one > database directory for example by messing around with links in the > filesystem, or you could use the LibClamAV library call cl_load() from > code of your own to load databases from wherever you like; but in the > former case I don't know why you'd want to (and it could also lead to > problems with permissions if you weren't careful) and in the latter > case you probably wouldn't be asking these questions. > > > b. Do I need to restart clamd for them to be picked up? > > man clamd > > tells you how to tell the daemon about new database using its socket > interface, and > > man freshclam > > tells you how to get freshclam to do it for you. Restarting the > daemon will reload the databases, and will do no harm unless there's > something talking to it at the time (such as your mailserver or some > process which is scanning lists of files and using the daemon for the > actual scanning). > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
Thank you, I am most obliged to you for you taking your time out to answer, and will study further. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
