On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 18:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
The only known crashing issue with clamd is due to broken versions of libz. Either run zlib-1.1.4 or a fixed version of 1.2.1 (which some vendors have issued, see CAN-2004-0797) -trog
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