On Wednesday 19 September 2007 15:28, Roberto Ullfig wrote: > Rob MacGregor wrote: > > On 9/19/07, Roberto Ullfig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We restart sendmail/clamd every morning. This morning this restart > >> failed on several servers. The startup hung when clamd was trying to > >> startup. I deleted everything in /var/lib/clamav (database files) and > >> everything started up just fine. > > > > That's nice ;) > > > > Maybe you meant to include some actual technical details, like O/S, > > version of clamav installed etc (and possibly why you restart sendmail > > and clamd daily)? > > Redhat Linux > clamav 0.91.2 > > Actually, it doesn't seem related to the clamav restart since some > servers experienced problems beforehand. We're using sanesecurity sigs > as well. In several cases, I had to delete all sigs in order to get > clamd to startup. I then ran freshclam and installed sanesecurity sigs - > restarted clamd again and had no problem.
Sounds like some sort of file corruption, I run the sanesecurity sigs past clamscan (with -d) before making them available. I also download them once for all the servers I maintain and distribute them after they have been checked by clamscan. This helps reduce the load on sanesecurity whose sigs are stopping so much rubbish. > > Since we've never had any problems of this nature with clamav before I > assumed that this was a signature related issue (especially since > deleting the sigs allowed clamd to start) that everyone using clamav > would be experiencing - that's why I didn't think it necessary to > include OS and version in the original post. -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com ----------------- _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
