Hi all I'm new on the list, is this is a FAQ please tell me so. I'm unsure if my problem is related to the other one that today is discussed on the list.
I have several clamav installations. I use it with Postfix on CentOS (very similar to Red Hat). I use the clamav RPM packages available on http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz , but recompiled on CentOS. Last night suddenly, on several of my custoers' mail servers, clamd stopped running. In the lo I find: Wed Apr 11 04:02:13 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK. Wed Apr 11 04:38:23 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Wed Apr 11 04:38:24 2007 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav Wed Apr 11 04:38:24 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file Wed Apr 11 04:38:24 2007 -> Terminating because of a fatal error. Wed Apr 11 04:38:24 2007 -> Socket file removed. Wed Apr 11 04:38:24 2007 -> Pid file removed. Wed Apr 11 04:38:24 2007 -> --- Stopped at Wed Apr 11 04:38:24 2007 This happened on at least 10 different installations, more or less at the same time. I noticed that: 1) the problem seems to occur only on 0.90 installations. Servers still with 0.8x seem not to be affected. 2) In /var/lib/clamav , after clamd stopped running, I find the directories daily.inc, main.inc anche the mirrors.dat file. No .cvd files. I'm looking for the reason of this massive problem, and I'd like to know if this can be an isolated episode (maybe due to a broken update file). I found a minor problem in the RPM package, too. In the rc file, /etc/init.d/clamd, it checks for the existence of /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd and , if not found, it exits echoing "ERROR: Clamav DB missing! Run 'freshclam --verbose' as root." Having main.inc and not main.cvd, my clamd refused to start with this error. Maybe the package author is listening reading this ML, so he can correct his packages. It seems to me that it is sufficient to check for the existence of the file /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd OR the directory /var/lib/clamav/main.inc . Is this be correct (I mean, main.inc took the place of main.cvd)? Thanks for the attention. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
