Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Oct 25, 2004, at 23:05, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I would suggest that you DisableDefaultScanOptions in clamd.conf and tune values according to your system. My servers do slightly more than 800 smtp transfers per hour and I found out that working with the DisableDefaultScanOptions commented out

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 03:45, Eric Worthy wrote: > > This is a vanilla install off qmailrocks.org site. This may be your problem. I seem to remember they are guilty of doing very bad things to the clamav install, like linking clamdscan to clamscan. -trog signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041026 10:30]: wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2004, at 23:05, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > >I would suggest that you DisableDefaultScanOptions in clamd.conf > >and tune values according to your system. My servers do slightly > >more

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Kareem Mahgoub
ect: Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage > * Eric Worthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20041026 07:02]: wrote: > > I built a new 4 cpu/1 gig ram qmail/vpopmail/qmailscanner/clamv > > mail server. (Four (4) Pentium® III Xeon 700 MHz/ 1 MB Cache) > > I pu

Re: [Clamav-users] Duplicate attachments

2004-10-26 Thread Matt
Paul Porter wrote: > Amavis. One would suggest that unless the sender really is attaching the same file twice to the email, to check this with the amavis list. It may be worthwhile checking first, though, as to whether it only happens with a particular sender. This may possibly be a remote iss

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Maul
Trog wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 03:45, Eric Worthy wrote: This is a vanilla install off qmailrocks.org site. This may be your problem. I seem to remember they are guilty of doing very bad things to the clamav install, like linking clamdscan to clamscan. -trog the QMR install doesnt really do ve

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:20, Jim Maul wrote: > Trog wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 03:45, Eric Worthy wrote: > > > >>This is a vanilla install off qmailrocks.org site. > > > > > > This may be your problem. I seem to remember they are guilty of doing > > very bad things to the clamav install,

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:41, Niek wrote: > On 10/26/2004 3:33 PM +0200, Trog wrote: > > So, I was correct, QMR completely screws up the ClamAV installation for > > no reason other than ignorance and gross stupidity. > > > > It also tells it's misguided users to run freshclam on-the-hour. Another >

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Maul
Trog wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:41, Niek wrote: On 10/26/2004 3:33 PM +0200, Trog wrote: So, I was correct, QMR completely screws up the ClamAV installation for no reason other than ignorance and gross stupidity. It also tells it's misguided users to run freshclam on-the-hour. Another bad deci

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Niek
On 10/26/2004 3:33 PM +0200, Trog wrote: So, I was correct, QMR completely screws up the ClamAV installation for no reason other than ignorance and gross stupidity. It also tells it's misguided users to run freshclam on-the-hour. Another bad decision. So, don't follow anything they say about instal

[Clamav-users] Re: rld: Error:

2004-10-26 Thread Dale Bohl
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:28:58 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/terabyte: OK /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/archiving: OK /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/uit/home_links_reasons: OK LibClamAV Error: Can't create temporary file : No such file or directo

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: rld: Error:

2004-10-26 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:20:15 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:28:58 -0500 > > Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>/home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/terabyte: OK > >>/home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/archiving: OK > >>/home/cheetah/d

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Gerardo Reynoso
On Monday 25 October 2004 23:17, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > Try 0.80. If it's not in debian's apt list, build it manually from source. You could also get it from backports.org: http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=clamav Regards Gerardo Reynoso _

[Clamav-users] Re: rld: Error:

2004-10-26 Thread Dale Bohl
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:20:15 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:28:58 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/terabyte: OK /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/archiving: OK /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/uit/

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: rld: Error:

2004-10-26 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:48:57 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interestingly, ClamAV 0.75 works fine on IRIX 6.5.24m. That tells > me something in ClamAV changed from 75 to 80 Definitely! -- oo. Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\. http://www.C

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:01, Jim Maul wrote: > Keep in mind while i agree the instructions are a little messed up for > the current versions of the software it uses, the instructions are the > way they are to correct problems and certain small errors that occured > in older versions of the sofw

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread clamav
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Eric Worthy wrote: > > Anyone have any advice on what I could be doing wrong or how to improve > the performance of the scanning? We always get a great performance boost in software by adding -march=(yourcpuhere) -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -static to the build lines. If you

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Niek wrote: > QMR delivers the community with the open source equivelant of > 'next, next, next, next, next, next, finish' installations. Is this a good thing ? Seriously. My pet peve with Windows installs is starting a 1 hour install, going to lunch, comming back, and fi

[Clamav-users] clamav-milter

2004-10-26 Thread Radu Anghel
Hello, I have kind of a problem with clamav-milter: when it scans an email it adds this header Milter add: header: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/544/Thu Oct 21 01:44:26 2004\n\tclamav-milter version 0.80j\n\ton tweety.celuloza.ro this is nice(except the \n\t's that aren't nice), but it's wrong Cla

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Maul
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Niek wrote: QMR delivers the community with the open source equivelant of 'next, next, next, next, next, next, finish' installations. Is this a good thing ? Seriously. My pet peve with Windows installs is starting a 1 hour install, going to

[Clamav-users] clamav problem

2004-10-26 Thread Rushan Sobar
Hi,   [EMAIL PROTECTED] clamav]# rpm -q clamavclamav-0.75.1-1 im running clamav-0.75.1-1 im getting the warning msg in the freshclam log. WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately !WARNING: Current functionality level = 2, required = 3 as I read in the mail arc

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter

2004-10-26 Thread Nigel Horne
> So, clamav-milter checks with clamd for version only on startup > and that's > confusing. This was discussed here a week or two ago. It has been opened up as an issue for investigation. ___ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-use

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Scott Ryan
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:52, Trog shaped the electrons to say: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 03:45, Eric Worthy wrote: > > This is a vanilla install off qmailrocks.org site. > > This may be your problem. I seem to remember they are guilty of doing > very bad things to the clamav install, like linkin

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Scott Ryan
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 16:56, Trog shaped the electrons to say: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:01, Jim Maul wrote: > > Keep in mind while i agree the instructions are a little messed up for > > the current versions of the software it uses, the instructions are the > > way they are to correct proble

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav problem

2004-10-26 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:31:30 -0700, Rushan Sobar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as I read in the mail archive I have to update my clamav to clamav-0.80 the > latest release. > my question is there any problem or side effect if I keep running my old > version? > is there any possible errors or risks

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Scott Ryan
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 16:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to say: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Eric Worthy wrote: > > Anyone have any advice on what I could be doing wrong or how to improve > > the performance of the scanning? > > We always get a great performance boost in software by add

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Maul
Scott Ryan wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:52, Trog shaped the electrons to say: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 03:45, Eric Worthy wrote: This is a vanilla install off qmailrocks.org site. This may be your problem. I seem to remember they are guilty of doing very bad things to the clamav install, like

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Maul
Scott Ryan wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2004 16:56, Trog shaped the electrons to say: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:01, Jim Maul wrote: Keep in mind while i agree the instructions are a little messed up for the current versions of the software it uses, the instructions are the way they are to correct pr

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Matt
Jim Maul wrote: > > Why the hell would they want to suggest that?? This would totally > > limit the ability to scale. Are there any docs suggesting what the > > 'benefits' are? When I took over here at my current job, qmailscanner > > was setup to use clamscan instead of clamdscan. We send/receive

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Scott Ryan
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:57, Jim Maul shaped the electrons to say: > Scott Ryan wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:52, Trog shaped the electrons to say: > >>On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 03:45, Eric Worthy wrote: > >>>This is a vanilla install off qmailrocks.org site. > >> > >>This may be your p

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Maul
Scott Ryan wrote: What are we arguing about here? I just know in my experience that you are seriously shooting yourself in the foot by using clamscan to scan all mails. Trog's suggestion of modifying qmail-scanner (if you really want to create the link) sounds like the sensible solution to those

Re: [Clamav-users] Config update signature

2004-10-26 Thread Dennis Skinner
Salvatore Basso wrote: Dennis Skinner wrote: First, don't start a new thread by replying to an existing one and changing the subject. You break threading and your email will likely be ignored by anyone not reading that thread. Just start a new message. .. sorry for this but I don't find previ

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: rld: Error:

2004-10-26 Thread Bogusław Brandys
Dale Bohl wrote: Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:20:15 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:28:58 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/terabyte: OK /home/cheetah/dbohl/proj/hsm/archiving: OK /home/cheeta

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread eworthy
> Scott Ryan wrote: > > >> >> What are we arguing about here? I just know in my experience that you >> are >> seriously shooting yourself in the foot by using clamscan to scan all >> mails. >> Trog's suggestion of modifying qmail-scanner (if you really want to >> create the >> link) sounds like th

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread clamav
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Jim Maul wrote: > Im simply arguing the fact that someone has spent a lot of their time to > help out the community by creating the QMR setup instructions[.] Jim is right here. Without the community we wouldn't be where we are. If anything, QMR has taught us something: c

Re: [Clamav-users] Config update signature

2004-10-26 Thread clamav
> >>First, don't start a new thread by replying to an existing one and > >>changing the subject. You break threading and your email will likely be > >>ignored by anyone not reading that thread. Just start a new message. Threads are built by matching the In-Reply-To mail header, not the subje

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread clamav
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Scott Ryan wrote: > > You can get some mileage by putting your MTA's temp dir on a shmfs/tmpvs or > > other type of VM filesystem if you're on a different OS to reduce the disk > > i/o cycles. By freeing I/O cycles, the cpus can do more *real* work and > > not wait precious cy

Re: [Clamav-users] Config update signature

2004-10-26 Thread Dennis Skinner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, don't start a new thread by replying to an existing one and changing the subject. You break threading and your email will likely be ignored by anyone not reading that thread. Just start a new message. Threads are built by matching the In-Reply-To mail header, no

Re: [Clamav-users] Config update signature

2004-10-26 Thread clamav
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Dennis Skinner wrote: > > Threads are built by matching the In-Reply-To mail header, not the > > subject. Changing the subject keeps it in the same thread. > > You didn't contradict me. Perhaps "don't try to start a new thread" is > more clear? Yeah, I wasn't very clear

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Stephen Gran
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:01:24AM -0400, Jim Maul said: > Keep in mind while i agree the instructions are a little messed up for > the current versions of the software it uses, the instructions are the > way they are to correct problems and certain small errors that occured > in older versions

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread Jason Haar
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:56:20PM +0100, Trog wrote: > You don't think it's rude to break other peoples software, for which we > then have to deal with the resulting mess, as witnessed by this thread? Indeed. We now have two mailing-lists (clamav and Qmail-Scanner) where people who followed this

[Clamav-users] Updating ClamAV

2004-10-26 Thread Matt
Since updating Clamav from .70 to .80 on a RAQ550 I am getting this: [root files]# freshclam ERROR: Please edit the example config file /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf. ERROR: Please edit the example config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf. ERROR: Can't parse the config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf [

Re: [Clamav-users] Updating ClamAV

2004-10-26 Thread aichains
Matt wrote: Since updating Clamav from .70 to .80 on a RAQ550 I am getting this: [root files]# freshclam ERROR: Please edit the example config file /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf. ERROR: Please edit the example config file /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf. ERROR: Can't parse the config file /usr/local/etc/

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: rld: Error:

2004-10-26 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:48:57 -0500 Dale Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interestingly, ClamAV 0.75 works fine on IRIX 6.5.24m. That tells me something in ClamAV changed from 75 to 80 Definitely! LOL :) You don't have to be THAT straightforward, Tomasz :) Anyway, here'

Re: [Clamav-users] Performance Help - 100% cpu usage

2004-10-26 Thread James Lick
Jason Haar wrote: I am now going to figure out a way that the installation of Qmail-Scanner will *ignore* the presense of clamdscan if its actually clamscan - that is really too gross to allow to continue. The ClamAV authors could put a stop to this by making clamdscan and clamscan the same pro