On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:11, Tomasz Papszun wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 at 16:04:13 +0100, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > I've just installed and been playing with 0.86.1. When freshclam updates > > the database, it helpfully says: > > > > "Clamd successfully notified about the update." > > > > in its log. However, clamd gives no indictation (in its log) that it is > > aware of and has loaded the new database. > > If a few minutes after updating database you haven't in clamd.log lines > like these: > > Wed Jul 13 01:02:11 2005 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav/ > Wed Jul 13 01:02:13 2005 -> Database correctly reloaded (36431 viruses)
Indeed. But some indeterminate response some minutes later is not the same as an immediate "clamd: freshclam reports new database available" message which would be useful and comforting. This is my feature request :) > > > This makes me nervous... I would hate to > > think that clamd will only start using the new definitions when I reboot > > the machine (every 4 months or so). > > Of course not. 'man clamd.conf' and notice SelfCheck. I was exagerating my fears in order to demonstrate ... Oh, never mind; the subtleties of english humour.... ;) > > > Would it possible to make clamd write a message to the log for future > > versions? [snip] > > BTW, the first problem you wrote about, should rather be asked about on > clamav-users ML, not clamav-devel. Got out the wrong side this morning, did we? Happens to us all occasionally ;) (This is a feature/enhancement request and bug report relevent to clamav developers, surely?) > > Good luck With software of this quality, luck is thankfully not required :) Andrew Walrond _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html
