On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:57, Trog wrote: > But, perhaps it's just me, but I don't quite understand why > people are writing such scripts instead of spending their effort > actually trying to fix the problem.
I've had it happen ~3 times in the last year. Each time it crashes, there are thousands of messages backed up in the mail queue and upset customers (understandably) screaming on the phone. I haven't been able reproduce the problem in a test environment, so it's hard to provide any useful data about the lockups. The script I wrote actually makes sure that the virus db is accessible and that clamav can successfully identify viruses, so it's useful for more than just fixing the crashes/lockups under discussion. ;) The following is composed of wild conjecture and guesses...Just looking at the symptoms I've seen discussed here, it sounds like something is happening to cause a clamd child to stop responding and not exit(). And somehow this child not exit()ing is preventing clamd from spawing more children. The symptom being the clamd master running and responding to pings and a single clamd child that doesn't appear to be responsive. Is anyone experiencing this with the latest CVS (or at least post Dec 14 2003)? Cheers, Mike ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
