On 5/13/10 7:54 AM, Cliff Hayes wrote:
Hello,
I am a system administrator who manages many servers and need a way to
programatically ping clamd on a server and get a response which I can
interpret to mean clamd is ok or the engine needs to be updated.
Unfortunately, I often get overwhelmed and don't have time to read all the
logs on all the servers to see the "WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is
OUTDATED!" message. I researched but could not find a clamd command which
would give me that info which I could create a program to check daily and
alert me if I need to update.
If there is no such thing, then is there a way to get clamd to email me when
the engine is outdated?
It sounds like you're trying to duplicate what is already in your logs. Why not
simply grep your logs for important information and mail the results to you?
Never mail yourself good news and will won't be inundated with noise you don't
need to act on.
In any event, here is a user contributed script that will allow interactive
polling of clamd either by Unix socket or tcp/ip socket.
http://mikecathey.com/code/clamdwatch/
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