From clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Wed Apr 11 14:41:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: list@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: list@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IPsbWzTF5czh; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:41:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tad.clamav.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43CC83240BF; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:41:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net Delivered-To: clamav-users@tad.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net Received: from tad.clamav.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tad.clamav.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PZzh26Ll1PVK for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:41:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx.fenrir.org.uk (mx.fenrir.org.uk [81.168.115.223]) by tad.clamav.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E627324099 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:41:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.artimi.com ([194.72.81.2] helo=[192.168.1.126]) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) by mx.fenrir.org.uk with esmtpsa (Exim 4.66 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Hbc8P-0006ja-S7 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:41:13 +0100 Message-ID: <461CD755.20507@fenrir.org.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:40:53 +0100 From: Brian Morrison Organization: The Fool and Bladder Face-Jumping Team User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ClamAV users ML References: <461CBC94.3040607@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <461CBC94.3040607@gmx.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 OpenPGP: id=E79E0778 Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] error stops clamd X-BeenThere: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: ClamAV users ML List-Id: ClamAV users ML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Errors-To: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net jacusy wrote: > Hello, > > this night my clamd-process terminated with an error. The reason was > that freshclam took too long to do its update, so that clamd could not > lock the database. So clamd exited. But this behaviour is very fatal > because the mail system (postfix with amavis) relys on clamd, so if it > is down, the whole mail traffic is blocked!! I'd say that it is more dangerous to stop mail delivery due to failed virus scanning than it is not to scan mail while clamd is unresponsive. -- Brian Morrison bdm@fenrir.org.uk _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html