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. > > 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. > > Actually, the problem IS related to a restart (which we do because mimedefang occasionally gets into a bad state). The first restart that failed was at 20:00 CT Sep 18. Since no one else here seems to have had a problem with the clamav sigs it might just be the 20:00 update of the sanesecurity sigs that caused the problem - we've only started using sanesecurity a few weeks ago.
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