[clamav-users] [ext] Re: Question regarding SIGUSR2 and clamd

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Maarten Broekman <maarten.broekman at gmail.com>:
> You might be able to open the socket that clamd is listening on and attempt
> to ping it. I forget if it replies with PONG while it's in the middle of
> reloading. It's been a while since I tried to do that.

Thanks:

# echo PING | socat - /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl 
PONG
# echo RELOAD | socat - /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl 
RELOADING
# echo PING | socat - /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl 
<nothing>
# echo PING | socat - /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl 
PONG

Yeah!

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