On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote:

> The sample init scripts (for RedHat) start clamd and clamav-milter at
> sequence numbers 90 and 91.  The RH default sendmail starts at sequence
> number 80.  I'd ignored this when setting things up before, since I
> figured being vulnerable to viruses for a few seconds at boot time was
> acceptable.  But this is probably something that should be fixed... I
> saw today that 9 messages came in during the two seconds that sendmail
> was up and clamav-milter was not.  Lowering those numbers (presumably to
> 78 and 79) would be a better default.

Good plan, I did that for Debian - made sendmail starts After the
milters, and ends Before them...  It has helped reduce the clutter in
/var/mail/mail.log.

It shouldn't, however change if a virus is accepted - since sendmail
should be tempfailing mail until the milters are functioning.

-- 
Rick Nelson
Life'll kill ya                         -- Warren Zevon
Then you'll be dead                     -- Life'll kill ya



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