Re: [Clamav-users] Automatic reloading of signature files

From: Lyle Giese <lyle(at)lcrcomputer.net>
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 09:24:03 EDT

While this may not directly answer your question, I am running the update script for the addons at 17 minutes past the hour. And run freshclam at 21 minutes past the hour.(I don't update the addons every hour...)

But I also see in /var/log/messages, clamd doing a selfcheck on the databases every 30 minutes.

Lyle

Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:56:47AM -0400, Gerard said:
>
>> FreeBSD-6.2
>> clamav 0.91.2
>>
>> I am not sure if this is working correctly or not. I am using the
>> 'sanesecurity', MSRBL, and 'securiteinfo.com' signature files in
>> addition to the regular clamav definition files. If 'freshclam'
>> updates the clamav files, it sends a reload signal to the clamd daemon
>> and it reloads the signature files, That is duly recorded in the
>> clamd.log file. However, if one of the other files is updated, there
>> is no mention of it in the clamd.log file. If I am not mistaken, clamd
>> auto checks for signature updates every 1800 seconds (30 minutes). I
>> have tried changing that number to different settings and restarting
>> the daemon; however, it does not seem to be having any effect.
>>
>> Either:
>>
>> 1) I am doing something incorrectly
>> 2) There is no notification in the log file by default
>> 3) Something else is broken
>>
>
> I suspect you are not telling clamd to reload after updating those
> signature files.
>
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