platform: solaris 5.9, sendmail 8.13.something, gcc 3.4.3,
4-cpu sun 450 (300 MHz CPUs; it's kinda old).

clamav seems to have built and installed without issue; 
nice job.

i have some random thoughts and observations and a question:

 - i have not yet enabled experimental code; i'm going to let it
   run for a while first.

 - the Makefile seems to no longer install the man pages. if this is
   deliberate, perhaps the banner at the top of clamd.conf:
     ## Example config file for the Clam AV daemon
     ## Please read the clamd.conf(5) manual before editing this file.
   should be changed. :-)

 - my simpleminded startup script contains code that looks like
   this:

       if [ -f /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamd -a -f 
/export/home/clamav/etc/clamd.conf ] ; then
                echo "clamd starting."
                /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamd >/dev/console 2>&1
        fi

        if [ -f /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamav-milter ] ; then
                echo "clamav-milter starting."
                /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamav-milter -PHl --postmaster=root 
-m 64 --external /var/clamav/clmilter.sock >/dev/console 2>&1
        fi

   (the clamd socket is also in /var/clamav) this has worked for, well, 
   a long time. post upgrade to 0.90, i get the following error from 
   the startup of clamav-milter:

      /var/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory
      Can't talk to clamd server via /var/clamav/clamd.sock
      Check your entry for LocalSocket in /export/home/clamav/etc/clamd.conf

   it's true; if i start clamd and then check, the clamd socket isn't
   there. but if i leave clamd alone for a few seconds the socket 
   appears and clamav-milter starts happily after that. i've tucked 
   a "sleep 30" into the startup script and things seem happy. is
   there anything obvious i'm missing?

 - the CPU footprint seems a little higher, so i'm wondering if i'm
   doing the most load-efficient thing. i'm starting clamav-milter 
   with the --external flag. is it in any way better to skip
   this? what have folks found to give the best performance?

rp
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