On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Joe Maimon wrote:
> > > The ClamAV authors could put a stop to this by making clamdscan and 
> > > clamscan the same program and then acting differently depending on 
> > > which name is run.  This is similiar to how gzip and gunzip are 
> 
> This has been brought up before and I am surfacing it again because there
> was some interest and it would add to the stability of ClamAV.  Very
> simply, clamdscan needs to timeout the connection to clamd after some
> (sane) amount of time and run clamscan.  An action could then be taken to
> alert someone if clamd died (|sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]).  When clamd
> hangs on our system, mail is deferred until I realize mail has stopped and 
> as you can imagine, that is a bad thing.  Someday I'll write a 
> mail-server watchdog w/ procmail and cron but I've not had time.
> 
> Any thoughts on how this should be accomplished?

I may have missed it, but what are the details of your system, OS, etc.

And, importantly, what exact version of libz (zlib) do you have
installed?

-trog

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