Re: [Clamav-users] error stops clamd

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Author: Dennis Peterson
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To: ClamAV users ML
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] error stops clamd
jacusy wrote:
> Alexander Grüner schrieb:
>> Hello :-)
>>
>> Same here since 12:45h MESZ.
>>
>> After some tests this helped me to get all working again:
>>
>> sudo killall freshclam
>> sudo rcclamd restart
>> sudo rc<application> restart
>>
>> And do NOT forget to comment you freshclam Updtes in cron out.
>>
>> Hope this quick hack helps...
>>
> The problem is not to restart my applications, the problem is the time
> between clamd going down and restarting my application. As my clamd was
> killed about 2.15 MEZ and the service was restarted at 9.30 MEZ, this is
> a serious problem! 7 hours we were not able to send / receive mail cause
> of a terribly made update of 9 megabytes......


You need to have better monitoring and notification, and a mail system
that delivers mail even if there is a fatal error in the AV tool. This
is hardly a ClamAV problem.

dp
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