Hello,

> I must have missed where you stated this.  Sigtool uses a hardcoded database
> directory which is determined at compile time.

Thats what I meant being the "actual state". Why using hardcoded
directories if there is a possibility to change it in the config files?

> You may want to smylink the old database directory to the new one to
> attempt to get sigtool to use the newly freshclam'd virus files.  I dont
> know if this is the best solution, but it would probably work.

The best solution is something completely different ;-) ... but that is
what I did yesterday to get the clamscan running correctly.

> I guess the reason for this is that clamscan expects all arguments on the
> command line.

Then it would be a better way to use the directory from the config file
as default and if the user is giving a command line this renews the
setting for this one execution time. That would be much cleaner than the
way clamscan (and sigtool) is operating at the moment.

> I honestly dont know as i did not develop clamav.

But may be some developers are reading this now ;-) ... Let me say that I
think clamav is a real good project. My criticism only depends on that one
point where the design isn't logical.

> This is the exact reason why i suggested renaming clamav.conf to
> clamd.conf since clamd is the only program using it.

I agree if there is created a clamscan.conf at the same time. The better
way in my eyes would be to merge the files and make clamscan using the
needed settings from that one. It's just a point of not holding config
data redundant.

Regards,

Andreas Haase
Postmaster
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