On 2009-12-24 03:03, Jim Preston wrote: > John W. Baxter wrote: >> 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 >> > Hi John, > > Thanks but I having stopped the cron job so that freshclam was not > running, clamav-milter still crashed at 10 min after the hour. Crash > may not be the correct word. What I get is mail rejected by sendmail > due to clamav-milter being dead but subsys locked......
Start clamav-milter, then attach gdb to it. Then when it crashes gdb will tell you why (at least the signal that killed it, and the location). See the "Backtrace of clamd:" on clamav.net/bugs, except instead of clamd attach it to clamav-milter. Best regards, --Edwin _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
