Hello List,

First time posting here, so forgive me if I do things wrong.

I'm experiencing the following problem on one of my servers with
clamav-0.85.1. Same compilation options on a bunch of other servers
are working fine, just this one is making trouble.

During boot-up, clamav spawns a process 'ls', which takes up 99% CPU
and gradually eats up ram until the box freezes. The "funny" part is,
when I disable clamav from startup during boot, and start it manually
afterwards, all is going fine. I can see the CPU load through the
Servermonitoring tool we're using, which manages to get a few lines of
"top" before the server freezes.

The System Specs:
#cat /etc/SuSE-release 
SuSE Linux 9.0 (i586)
VERSION = 9.0

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+

1GB of Ram


Unfortunately, the logs (/var/log/messages, /var/log/boot.msg) don't
say much about it.

The start-script i'm using for clamav is rather simple:

<snip>
case "$1" in
    start)
      echo -n "starting clamavd"
      su -c - clamav "/usr/local/clamav/sbin/clamd"
      rc_status -v
      sleep 2
      echo -n "starting clamav-milter"
      su -c - clamav "/usr/local/clamav/sbin/clamav-milter -dq
local:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock"
      rc_status -v
      ;;
</snip>
and that's where it hangs. 

Anyone have had the same/similar problems and would happen to be able
to shed some light on this issue?

Can I provide more information, so this problem can be examined further?

Thanks in Advance

Emanuel
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