You might be able to open the socket that clamd is listening on and attempt to ping it. I forget if it replies with PONG while it's in the middle of reloading. It's been a while since I tried to do that.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:40 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt < ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > One can send SIGUSR2 to a running clamd instance to reload the > signatures. > > But how can I (from a script) determine, if the signatures > have been reloaded? I can of course try "sleep 30" which will suffice > in most cases (from my experiene) but is there a script based approach > apart from trying to parse the logfile? > > -- > Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin > ralf.hildebra...@charite.de Campus Benjamin Franklin > https://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin > Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155 > > _______________________________________________ > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > > _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
