Hello people, and thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

I seem to be having a problem with Postfix+Amavisd-new+ClamAV+LogRotate.  
It is a problem that I have yet to reproduce, so as you can probably guess 
I'm getting pretty frustrated.

I've searched google up and down and although I've found some notes from 
other people hinting to this kind of behaviour, I have not found a 
solution.

My problem is as follows:

I am running a gentoo box, with ClamAV version 0.68-1, Amavisd-new version 
20030616-p8, Syslog-ng version 1.6.0rc3, and Logrotate version 3.6.5.

I have logrotate set to rotate my logs nightly, and have been having 
seemingly random problems with ClamAV restarting after the rotation 
occurs.  The log file get rotated fine, and logrotate restarts syslog-ng 
fine also.  The problem is that sometimes ClamAV simply does not start up!

The only thing I can find in my log files is in the daemon.log file:
     Apr 16 00:06:28 {host} rc-scripts: Failed to start clamd

No other warnings at all.  :(

I've restarted ClamAV by hand numerous times and everything works fine.  I 
guess I should mention that Clam is set to log via SysLog, and not its own 
log file.  That's why I must restart ClamAV when I restart syslog-ng 
(otherwise, nothing gets written by ClamAV to the log files).

Can anyone make any suggestions as to what may be happening?  If you need 
more info I'll be happy to supply.  I am not sure what is or is not 
relevant, besides the already said info.

Here is a snippit of my logrotate config file:

/var/log/mail.log
{
  missingok
  olddir /var/log/oldlogs
  size=500M
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload  || true
    /etc/init.d/clamd restart     || true
    /etc/init.d/amavisd restart   || true
    /etc/init.d/mailgraph restart || true
  endscript
}

I am restarting ClamAV and Amavis because if I do not do that, neither 
seem to write to the log files anymore.  I thought that reloading 
syslog-ng would take care of that, but it doesn't.

Thanks for reading this long message.
  Greg



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