[clamav-users] what initiates freshclam? [OT]

[Kris Deugau]

G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
> IMHO this is a pretty unconvincing reason to change your init system,
> especially to one which is both as new as systemd, and as capable of
> stupidity on a scale never before seen in any init system.  A couple
> of examples here (the wanton renaming of Ethernet interfaces

IIRC most of that one can be laid at the feet of the kernel developers 
trying to make hardware enumeration more predictable, and systemd is 
just one of several places the sysadmin can try to clean up the pieces.

My understanding is about 50% "WTF?", but supposedly the change came 
about because a physical device on a known physical slot location will 
show up in the PCI hardware enumeration in a semirandom order.  The 
people having most issue with this were people using "many" multiport 
NICs to build routers, and they were apparently having real problems 
with logical interfaces semirandomly migrating from card to card to 
card.  When you're actively trying to decide where to fling packets 
around this is a Big Problem(TM).

-kgd