Jason Frisvold wrote: > Hi all, > > The clamd process on one of my mail servers appears to have locked up > earlier today. I was unable to restart or kill the process. In fact, > I had to do a hard reset to fix the problem. > > So, Im wondering what steps I can take next time to a) determine why > clamd has locked up, b) gather sufficient debugging information for > the clamav team, and c) kill and restart the process without the hard > reboot. > > Can anyone give me some pointers? I understand that there's not a lot > of information here. I'm looking for what to do next time, assuming > there is a next time.. :)
If a 'kill -9' will not kill the process, I would say your problem lies elsewhere than with Clam. That would be more indicative of a hardware or OS problem. Matt _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html