Re: [vps-mail] ClamAV Daemon....you were right, Scott

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:31:34PM -0800, Abigail Marshall wrote:
> SW> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:45:53PM -0800, Abigail Marshall wrote:
> >> Scott wrote:
> >> >clamd is not very stable yet, but it is simply started with 'clamd'.
> >> 
> OK Scott,
> You were absolutely right. After testing for a couple of
> days in a very LOW load environment, I saw that Clamd simply
> crashes from time to time. No indication as to why - no
> error messages - it just goes away.  Plus the clamav logging
> is frustrating in the degree of its obtuseness; it doesn't
> even reflect date/time of error messages so it is hard to
> trace.
> 
> I think the alternative would be to regularly run clamd from
> a cron job, perhaps once an hour - from what I can tell it
> doesn't seem to spawn multiple instances of itself.

I'd recommend against clamd completely for now (later versions shall
be exempt from my judgement until proven). Just change 'clamdscan' in
your procmailrc file to 'clamscan' and it will work just fine.

Scott
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