Tomās Núņez Lirola wrote: > > I have a doubt respecting amavis... > I've read there are some antiviruses that run in daemon mode > (clamav-daemon, > sophie) because if you want to check a lot of files every 2 > or 3 seconds > (like a mail server does), it takes a lot of resources to load virus > definitions every time, so they load definitions once and > stay as a daemon. > But I thought AMaViS implemented this. Am I certain? Does > AMaViS load virus > definitions every time a mail is checked? I mean, is useless a daemon > antivirus with amavis? > It's a bit different. You're right in that clamav-daemon/sophie run as daemons to reduce pattern load time and system load.
But it's also true that perl scripts (like amavis) also take a while to load (on my testing machine it takes even longer to load and initialize amavis than h+b antivir), so amavis has also been daemonized (in the various spin-offs, like amavisd, amavisd-snap, amavisd-new). So with amavisd-new (which I prefer to run) you have an MTA, conenctiong to the amavis daemon, which connects to (eg) the clamav-daemon. Everything sits in memory and is ready to rumple upon incoming mail :-) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
