RE: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-07 Thread nikos
I'll try 25 children. Thank you everyone who answered! Nikos -Original Message- From: Dennis Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:11 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit nikos wrote: > nikos wrote: >

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 >= 5): waiting for some to exit After restartarting milter everything wo

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread kwijibo
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: But "helping" the virus by allowing it to spread to a secondary target (which most viruses now put in the "MAIL From" field), isn't good either. I don't think you are really helping it by rejecting an email. There are pretty much two things that can happen. 1 - The send

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 6, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Todd Lyons wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail because of this problem. I woul

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:58:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >recipient. If a virus is rejected at SMTP time then the sending server is > >likely to try to deliver that virus to the envelope sender, which is not > >at all friendly. Better to discard viruses th

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks > or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during > the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail because > of

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread clamav-list
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Todd Lyons wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks > >or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during > >the SMTP phase. I have regularly

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread kwijibo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, SM wrote: I agree. MailScanner is totally configurable in this regard, and is normally set to trap known viruses and inform neither "sender" nor recipient. If a virus is rejected at SMTP time then the sending server is likely to try to deliver th

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread clamav-list
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, SM wrote: > At 12:44 06-09-2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks > >or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during > >the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mai

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks >or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during >the SMTP phase. I have regularly s

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread SM
At 12:44 06-09-2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail because Are you going to accept, the

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread clamav-list
> > nikos wrote: > >> Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send > >> any mails. > >> I receive the next message: > >> > >> Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 >= > >> 5): waiting for some to exit > >> > >> After restartarting milter

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
nikos wrote: nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 >= 5): waiting for some to exit After restartarting milter everything worked fine.

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:57:25AM +0300, nikos wrote: >Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send >any mails. >I receive the next message: >Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 >= >5):

RE: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-05 Thread nikos
: hit max-children limit (5 >=5): waiting for some to exit This is from messeges log file... -Original Message- From: Dennis Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:10 AM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit nikos

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 >= 5): waiting for some to exit After restartarting milter everything worked fine. Can someone ex