Bill Landry wrote:
> micah wrote:
>> Are there any signals I can send to clamd to tell it to reload its config
>> files? I've tried -HUP, -USR1 and -USR2, and I don't see anything in clamd
>> (8) about a command that clamd can take to reload configs (only reloading
>> database files).
>>
>> Do I really need to interrupt the clamav scanning stream by issuing a
>> full restart to get it to change a config variable?
>
> No full restart necessary. You can signal clamd to reload is signature files
> by
> using either of the following methods:
>
> kill -USR2 xxxx (xxxx = clamd pid)
>
> or, via perl if using a LocalSocket:
>
> perl -MIO::Socket::UNIX -we '$s = IO::Socket::UNIX->new(shift);
> $s->print("RELOAD"); print $s->getline; $s->close' /path/to/clamd.sock
Or even:
echo RELOAD | socat - /var/amavis/clamd.sock
if you have socat installed.
Bill
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