[clamav-users] SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload.

[Cliff Hayes]

I have more information.
Turns out there is a cron job I was unaware of.
freshclam-sleep is running every 3 hours.
Apparently, freshclam-sleep does something that freshclam doesn't and 
causes a database update.
Do I need to run freshclam and freshclam-sleep?
Can I turn off the freshclam-sleep cron job or should I use 
freshclam-sleep instead of freshclam in my daily 3am maintenance script?

On 11/13/2019 7:24 PM, Cliff Hayes via clamav-users wrote:
> Hello clamd mailing list,
> 
> I recently installed clamav version 0.101.4-1.fc30 on Fedora 30.
> A new situation I have never seen has started.
> Every day around 5am clamd causes a problem.
> I traced it to this in logs:
> 
> SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload.
> 
> I have a daily cron job that runs around 3am that:
> - shuts down clamd
> - runs freshclam
> - starts clamd
> 
> I see several of these log entries after the above daily cron between 
> 3am and 5am:
> SelfCheck: Database status OK.
> 
> So, since the Database is OK 99.9% of the time, why is it suddenly not 
> OK at 5am?
> There are no cron jobs scheduled for 5am.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
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