On Wed 20/Mar/2019 14:53:28 +0100 Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 3/20/2019 8:42 AM, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users wrote: >> On Tue 19/Mar/2019 15:35:39 +0100 Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >>> ClamAV is taking about 2 1/2 minutes to reload its database on my mail >>> server. This >>> seems to frequently happen when we are sending an email, so the Thunderbird >>> will time >>> out on the send (although the message will frequently go through anyway). >> >> The mail server should scan the message with the database at hand. A forked >> child can do the filtering while the parent reloads. Upon loading, the >> child exits and new messages will be scanned by the parent with the updated >> database. > > That would be ideal, but it doesn't seem to be happening that way. If I look > at my > logs, I see "SelfCheck", then "Reading databases", and at that point all > scanning > stops until the "Database correctly reloaded" message 2 1/2 minutes later.
Are you using clamd directly (rather than libclamav)? How is it connected to the mail server? > Is there a setting somewhere to allow scanning to continue with the existing > child > processes while the reload happens? It has to be coded inside the mail filter; avfilter for Courier works that way, for one. Best Ale -- _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
