I'm tweaking RPMs for our use and trying to give decent feedback to Kristof regarding changes in the RPMs that he publically provides and I wondered if anyone could provide some feedback on ulimits.
On RedHat there is an option when starting a daemon to start it using the user so: su - <username> -s /bin/bash -c "commandline" and this will allow one to set ulimits for that user and his shell. Other than that I couldn't figure out how to get clamav to respect it's user limits as set in /etc/security/limits.conf. Further, it seems as though clamd sets its current working directory to / despite where it is started unless I start it in Foreground mode. This prevents clamd from writing its core file. Both of these have come up due to a reproducible memory over consumption caused by parsing a nested message caused by an unfortunate mail loop on our servers. Nigel has a copy of an email that reproduces the problem and I hope he will be able to reproduce it on his end and target the code that is causing the problem. Thanks for all your help on this. It has been a major headache here, but we really want to provide ClamAV as a production network distributed milter and I think we are pretty close. -- Robert Schmidt -- UNIX Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] MC1021 519-888-4567 x6453 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
