If you chose the LocalSocket method of communicating with clamd, you
ca use a very cool piece of software called socat to send commands to
clamd. You can read about it here: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/.

Read the instructions on how to compile it, and then do:

socat - /tmp/clamd <COMMAND>          (your path to clamd may be different)

Commands:
PING - should reply with a PONG. It tells you that clamd is alive.
RELOAD - reloads the database
SHUTDOWN - shuts down clamd
VERSION - shows you clamd's version.

-RoNNY

On 7/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gerard wrote:
> > When I issue the command as root:
> >
> > clamd PING
> 
> That doesn't work.  PING is not a command-line argument.
> 
> If you telnet TO THE SOCKET [1], then write "PING\n" to the socket, you 
> should receive "PONG\n" from the socket.
> 
> [1]Yes, on some systems you really can telnet to a socket.
> 
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