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

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 13.11.19 21:58, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>freshclam-sleep is Fedora's method of automatically updating the 
>signatures.  If you want to update it your way, feel free to disable 
>it.

even something other than standard freshclam daemon does?
Or is it just for case freshclam does not run?

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

correct.  In fact, developing the same task for something already
implemented may cause problems like this one.

>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:
>>>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.

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