From clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Wed Feb 14 21:16:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: list@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: list@tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22956-09; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:16:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from tad.clamav.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA915140FB; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:16:38 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22956-04 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:16:36 +0100 (CET) X-Greylist: delayed 447 seconds by postgrey-1.21 at tad; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:16:36 CET Received: from post.queensu.ca (post.QueensU.CA [130.15.126.6]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5565140F5 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:16:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from post.queensu.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by post.queensu.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1EK99H9019541 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:09:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rick@localhost) by post.queensu.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l1EK986j019531; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:09:08 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Pim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17875.27748.680094.553590@post.queensu.ca> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:09:08 -0500 To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at clamav.net Subject: [Clamav-users] first impressions on 0.90 X-BeenThere: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ClamAV users ML List-Id: ClamAV users ML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Errors-To: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at clamav.net platform: solaris 5.9, sendmail 8.13.something, gcc 3.4.3, 4-cpu sun 450 (300 MHz CPUs; it's kinda old). clamav seems to have built and installed without issue; nice job. i have some random thoughts and observations and a question: - i have not yet enabled experimental code; i'm going to let it run for a while first. - the Makefile seems to no longer install the man pages. if this is deliberate, perhaps the banner at the top of clamd.conf: ## Example config file for the Clam AV daemon ## Please read the clamd.conf(5) manual before editing this file. should be changed. :-) - my simpleminded startup script contains code that looks like this: if [ -f /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamd -a -f /export/home/clamav/etc/clamd.conf ] ; then echo "clamd starting." /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamd >/dev/console 2>&1 fi if [ -f /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamav-milter ] ; then echo "clamav-milter starting." /export/home/clamav/sbin/clamav-milter -PHl --postmaster=root -m 64 --external /var/clamav/clmilter.sock >/dev/console 2>&1 fi (the clamd socket is also in /var/clamav) this has worked for, well, a long time. post upgrade to 0.90, i get the following error from the startup of clamav-milter: /var/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory Can't talk to clamd server via /var/clamav/clamd.sock Check your entry for LocalSocket in /export/home/clamav/etc/clamd.conf it's true; if i start clamd and then check, the clamd socket isn't there. but if i leave clamd alone for a few seconds the socket appears and clamav-milter starts happily after that. i've tucked a "sleep 30" into the startup script and things seem happy. is there anything obvious i'm missing? - the CPU footprint seems a little higher, so i'm wondering if i'm doing the most load-efficient thing. i'm starting clamav-milter with the --external flag. is it in any way better to skip this? what have folks found to give the best performance? rp _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html