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

[Orion Poplawski]

freshclam-sleep is Fedora's method of automatically updating the 
signatures.  If you want to update it your way, feel free to disable it.

BTW - you don't need to shutdown clamd to update the signatures.

On 11/13/19 7:17 PM, Cliff Hayes via clamav-users wrote:
> 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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