On 12/23/09 9:57 AM, "Jim Preston" <jimli...@commspeed.net> wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Jim Preston wrote: > >> Török Edwin wrote: >>> On 2009-12-19 00:56, Jim Preston wrote: >>> >>>> Could I have a bad setting in the freshclam.conf? >>>> >>> >>> Why should the milter be affected by freshclam? Its only purpose is >>> to >>> interface between your MTA and clamd. >>> As long as clamd is up and running, the milter should not be >>> influenced >>> by freshclam. >>> >>> >>> >> I agree and my last post states it is not related, just a >> coincidence that it fails at the same time interval as the freshclam >> update. While freshclam was stopped, clamav-milter continued to fail >> at 10 minutes after the hour. >> >> Thanks, Jim > > Well still have not found the root cause of the problem but armed with > the above information that it is failing at 10 min after the hour, I > have reset the cron job to restart clamav-milter at 12 min after the > hour....... instead of on the 1/4 hour It's not necessarily a coincidence. Perhaps the machine is resource-starved while freshclam is at work. Do the crashes coincide only with those freshclam runs which actually download fresh sigs? --John _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
