I think Alessandro was suggesting how it could work, not how it does work.
Clamd doesn't work that way at present. It has been a feature request for a
very long time, one that I hope we can address sometime soon, but I don't know
when.
Micah
Micah Snyder
ClamAV Development
Talos
Cisco Systems, Inc.
On 3/20/19, 10:04 AM, "clamav-users on behalf of Bowie Bailey"
<clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net on behalf of bowie_bai...@buc.com> wrote:
On 3/20/2019 8:42 AM, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users wrote:
> On Tue 19/Mar/2019 15:35:39 +0100 Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> ClamAV is taking about 2 1/2 minutes to reload its database on my mail
server. This
>> seems to frequently happen when we are sending an email, so the
Thunderbird will time
>> out on the send (although the message will frequently go through anyway).
>
> The mail server should scan the message with the database at hand. A
forked child can do the filtering while the parent reloads. Upon loading, the
child exits and new messages will be scanned by the parent with the updated
database.
That would be ideal, but it doesn't seem to be happening that way. If I
look at my
logs, I see "SelfCheck", then "Reading databases", and at that point all
scanning
stops until the "Database correctly reloaded" message 2 1/2 minutes later.
Is there a setting somewhere to allow scanning to continue with the
existing child
processes while the reload happens?
--
Bowie
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