-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Obantec Support wrote: > Hi > > clamd died again > > from clamd.log > > SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. > Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav > ERROR: reload db failed: Broken or not a CVD file > Terminating because of a fatal error.Socket file removed. > Pid file removed. > --- Stopped at Thu Apr 12 04:25:08 2007 > /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory > /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory > /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory > repeated until 8am BST when i did routine tests > /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory > > found *.cvd in /var/lib/clamav > > since i am using clamav-milter this has a knock on effect of stopping users > sending mail. > for now i have killed all clam and freshmeat until this is resolved. > I think maybe what needs to happen is: (1) Any script files touching *.cvd need to be modified. This seems to be causing the problem. (2) ClamAV needs to change to fix the issue of a 0-byte CVD file causing it to CRASH.
Sorry for SHOUTING, James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHjg/kNLDmnu1kSkRAkptAJ9O+UnYgG+QTs4d+s5GKFGPHmOmPQCdHVAd /wKn409e5k9D4eY/3ihUxCY= =sq99 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html