jacusy wrote: > 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!!
I'd say that it is more dangerous to stop mail delivery due to failed virus scanning than it is not to scan mail while clamd is unresponsive. -- Brian Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
