Renato Botelho wrote:
> On 6/3/07, James Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As of version 0.90, clamd daemonizes before it loads the databases,
>> creates the socket and begins accepting connections. Unfortunately, as
>> the databases grow, clamd can take quite a while to initialise (I've
>> seen upwards of 65 seconds on some slower or loaded systems). This
>> causes problems for programs that rely on clamd being ready to accept
>> connections. In order to ensure that clamd is fully initialised, it must
>> be started and then one must continually check for the presence of the
>> clamd socket file...
> If you are interested, there is a workaround to it on clamav-milter
> startup script of FreeBSD ports, you can take a look at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/security/clamav/files/clamav-milter.in?rev=1.4;content-type=text%2Fplain
I have a similar work around, but 100% reliability is still not 
guaranteed, hence the proposed patch. Thanks for the link, though.

Jamie

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