On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> I have ClamAV running on several Linux mailservers. All of them stopped
> working last night with similar symptoms:
In terms of the freshlcam failing, I had the same problem last night.
However, I run freshclam on a separate machine from my mail servers. After a
successfull update it rsyncs' the databases to my mail servers, so none of
my clamd processes noticed the problem.
> Simple question: why did that happen? IMHO a failure to update the
> signatures, even if it persists for several hours, should not prevent
> the continued use of the scan service with the signatures it already
Sounds like a bug to me, as freshclam is supposed to prevent this from
happening. However, you probably also want a script that monitors you
clamd/clamav-milter (or whatever else you use) processes to make sure they
keep running, and restart them in case one dies.
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Chris Candreva --
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WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
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