[clamav-users] clamac + amavis database reload

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Philipp Ewald <philipp.ewald at digionline.de>:

> if the databases from clamav has changed clam-av is reloading by  
> himself. I have configured to check every 5 min.

That's a bit excessive. The DNS record that freshclam checks has a TTL  
of 1800 seconds, so checking more often than every minutes is a waste  
of effort.

> Does amavis need to be reloaded too?

No.

> i have the feeling that new "learned" virus will not be detect by  
> amavis + clamav.
>
> after some time amavis detect this virus without doing anything.

It may depend on the way you reload the virus signatures. CPU and/or  
memory constrained systems may take several minutes before the new  
signatures are loaded. The default behaviour is to keep scanning with  
the old signatures in the mean time.