On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Scott Rothgaber wrote: > Doug Hardie wrote: > > > have encountered quite a few situations in the last month where clamav > > just stopped working properly and had to be manually restarted. > > I had the same problem with spamass-milter a while back. What you need > is a "watchdog" script, something like this... >
We had a problem similar to this this week, however, the problem wasn't due to a dead/core'd process. clamdscan actually hung for one reason or another and clamd had to be shot down with a -9. This took place just after the upgrade to .80rc4 and I attributed it to (possibly) having a rc3 clamd running with a rc4 clamdscan. Perhaps I did not adequately shut down rc3 before the update. Either way, I assume that clamdscan shouldn't hang if clamd is dead. I noticed that mail was backed up because the amavis delivery agent (ADA?) hung when it relayed to amavisd. Eventually the problem was found to be clamdscan hanging and restarting clamd (after a -9) seemed to work. Is anyone else experiencing similar problems? For added reliability, can we have clamdscan call clamscan if clamd is toast and has timed out? -Eric -- Eric Wheeler Vice President National Security Concepts, Inc. PO Box 3567 Tualatin, OR 97062 http://www.nsci.us/ Voice: (503) 293-7656 Fax: (503) 885-0770 _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
