On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:31 +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > Some time ago somebody wrote, and somebody else replied: > > >>>> Why not just run freshclam as a daemon? > >>> Then you really need to have a daemon watcher to keep it going.
> Naturally if freshclam dies we can expect people to mention it. I'm > calling for those who run freshclam as a daemon and who don't see any > problems with it to chip into this thread. How many of us are there? I've been running it for several years, in daemon mode, on several servers, some higher-volumne than others. The biggest site receives about 20,000 messages a day (after greylisting. It was around 60000 a day before we implemented greylisting). I do 47 checks per day with one and 49 checks per days with another (nice odd numbers so that I never hit the mirrors at precisely the same time of day). These servers are running Mandriva linux, with amavisd-new calling clamd. I have never seen freshclam hung. I ran across a Red-Hat 8 box the other day that I was requested to audit. It was running clamav .75.1-1, with freshclam in daemon mode. The configuration was untouched since two years ago when it was installed. The database was up to date, too bad the engine wasn't ;-) -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
