Thanks, but I was wondering if there's an easier way to communicate with the
already-running process.
I'm looking for something that I could do from a shell prompt rather than a
script.
Thanks
-RoNNY
On 6/7/05, Christopher X. Candreva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Ronny Nussbaum wrote:
>
> > In the documentation, it says that clamd accepts commands such as PING,
> > VERSION, etc.
> > Every time I start clamd, it just starts the daemon in the background.
> > If I do "clamd PING", I get a daemon named....clamd PING.
>
> You send these commands to the daemon over the socket, think of it as
> 'telneting' to the daemon and typeing the command. Here is a simple
> program
> I use to reload my databases (I run freshclam on one machine and rsync to
> all others)
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> use IO::Socket::UNIX;
>
> $sock = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(Peer => "/var/clamav/clamav.sock",
> Type => SOCK_STREAM,
> Timeout => 10)
> || &RestartClamd ;
>
> $sock->send("RELOAD") ;
> $sock->recv($mesg, 1024) ;
> print $mesg,"\n";
>
> exit (0);
>
>
>
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