Hello, this night my clamd-process terminated with an error. The reason was that freshclam took too long to do its update, so that clamd could not lock the database. So clamd exited. But this behaviour is very fatal because the mail system (postfix with amavis) relys on clamd, so if it is down, the whole mail traffic is blocked!! Caused of an error while updating......
What to do against? The logs: clamd.log > Wed Apr 11 01:53:40 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK. > Wed Apr 11 02:27:53 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database modification detected. > Forcing reload. > Wed Apr 11 02:28:07 2007 -> Reading databases from > /usr/local/clamav/share/clamav > Wed Apr 11 02:30:17 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock > database directory (try 1) > Wed Apr 11 02:32:27 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock > database directory (try 2) > Wed Apr 11 02:34:37 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock > database directory (try 3) > Wed Apr 11 02:34:37 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock > database directory > Wed Apr 11 02:34:37 2007 -> Terminating because of a fatal error.Wed > Apr 11 02:34:37 2007 -> Socket file removed. > Wed Apr 11 02:34:37 2007 -> Pid file removed. > Wed Apr 11 02:34:37 2007 -> --- Stopped at Wed Apr 11 02:34:37 2007 freshclam.log > ClamAV update process started at Wed Apr 11 02:23:01 2007 > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 62.26.160.3) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (85.25.252.58)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 85.25.252.58) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (85.199.169.78)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 85.199.169.78) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (85.214.44.186)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 85.214.44.186) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (88.198.17.100)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.17.100) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (88.198.104.251)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 88.198.104.251) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (89.149.194.18)... > connect_error: getsockopt(SO_ERROR): fd=5 error=110: Connection timed out > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 89.149.194.18) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (194.77.146.139)... > nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=5 errno=103: Software caused > connection abort > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 194.77.146.139) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (195.246.234.199)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 195.246.234.199) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (213.174.32.130)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 213.174.32.130) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (217.115.136.166)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 217.115.136.166) > Trying host db.de.clamav.net (217.160.141.39)... > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 217.160.141.39) > ERROR: getpatch: Can't download main-43.cdiff from db.de.clamav.net > nonblock_connect: connect timing out (30 secs) > Can't connect to port 80 of host db.de.clamav.net (IP: 62.26.160.3) > (this goes on for some pages....) > Trying host database.clamav.net (194.77.146.139)... > nonblock_connect: connect(): fd=9 errno=103: Software caused > connection abort > Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP: 194.77.146.139) > Ignoring mirror 195.246.234.199 (due to previous errors) > Trying host database.clamav.net (213.174.32.130)... > Downloading daily-3065.cdiff [0%] > daily.inc updated (version: 3065, sigs: 3293, f-level: 14, builder: sven) > Database updated (107793 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: > 213.174.32.130) > WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /tmp/clamd > -------------------------------------- > ClamAV update process started at Wed Apr 11 05:23:01 2007 > main.inc is up to date (version: 43, sigs: 104500, f-level: 14, > builder: sven) > daily.inc is up to date (version: 3065, sigs: 3293, f-level: 14, > builder: sven) _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
