Robert Zilbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:43, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> > > Here too, updates stopped on august 16th.
> > >
> > > On 6 out of 6 mailservers running clamav, something went very wrong on
> > > august 16th.
> >
> > I run freshclam out of cron so would never have had this problem. I see
> > failures all the time - 'Mirrors not fully...', etc., but it finally
> > gets a fresh pattern.
>
> Ditto. I used to run all of my freshclam procs as daemons. However, a while
> back I switched all of our machines (mostly Solaris 9 & 10, sparc) running
> freshclam to use a cron job instead of daemon mode.
>
> As of 0.88.1 I began seeing a "silent death" problem in the freshclam daemon
> (it seemed to die with a SIGPIPE). Mine was a somewhat different issue than
> the problem reported today as I never had a freshclam process just hang and
> do nothing. If mine choked, they died completely.
>
> In my experience, freshclam in cron is the way to go. I haven't had any
> trouble with it whatsoever since I switched.
I am running FreshClam on a FreeBSD 6.1 O without any problems. I
routinely check the logs twice a week and nothing out of the ordinary is
ever reported.
I try to stay away from CRON whenever possible. There is always the
possibility that I might forget to enable or disable something.
Enabling or disabling in etc/rc.conf works just fine for me. I just let
it run as daemon.
Perhaps there is something else wrong on your OS. If this was really a
software bug, then everyone, or at least a large number of users would
be suffering this problem. I see no evidence of that anywhere. Perhaps
an out of date library is screwing things up.
--
Gerard Seibert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I went to a Palestinian SEX-SHOP the other day and bought a life-sized
doll. When I got her home, she blew herself up.
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