On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > I have ClamAV running on several Linux mailservers. All of them stopped > working last night with similar symptoms:
In terms of the freshlcam failing, I had the same problem last night. However, I run freshclam on a separate machine from my mail servers. After a successfull update it rsyncs' the databases to my mail servers, so none of my clamd processes noticed the problem. > Simple question: why did that happen? IMHO a failure to update the > signatures, even if it persists for several hours, should not prevent > the continued use of the scan service with the signatures it already Sounds like a bug to me, as freshclam is supposed to prevent this from happening. However, you probably also want a script that monitors you clamd/clamav-milter (or whatever else you use) processes to make sure they keep running, and restart them in case one dies. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
