On Tue, 03 May 2005 11:05:28 -0400 "henry j. mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi clamav-users; > > i've been using clamav for a long time now, and love it > dearly. however, once in a great while i get burned by > outdated definitions. at one point it was just me not > paying attention to the freshclam logfiles (i needed to > upgrade) but more recently freshclam just failed silently > and stopped logging. i actually had to kill -KILL the > freshclam process, and restart it. once that was done, > it grabbed the latest updates and all was well again. > > however. i need to know when freshclam fails silently. > i know freshclam includes options to alert on errors, > but i'd rather have some other process looking at it > and making sure it's doing the right thing. has anyone > tackled this problem? or is this just too obscure? > > my systems are: > intel celeron 1.1 ghz / 512 mb / ide > debian stable/testing with linux 2.6.4 > clamav/freshclam 0.83-5 > > ultrasparc IIi 440 mhz / 512 mb / scsi > debian stable/testing with linux 2.4.18 > clamav/freshclam 0.83-5 > > other than the hardware and kernel these two systems > have identical software configurations. > > i'm using amavis from debian testing, which is rather > ancient but has given me no grief. both these systems > failed around the same time (april 24) whereas two other > almost identical systems (also an intel and another > sparc) kept working perfectly. > > any ideas? i'm thinking about cobbling together something There was a bug (causing random hangs) in freshclam that has been fixed in 0.84: Thu Feb 17 16:13:29 CET 2005 (tk) --------------------------------- * freshclam/freshclam.c: do not call logg() in daemon_sighandler() (patch by Trog) -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Tue May 3 17:18:03 CEST 2005
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