Hello jacusy, > 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......
amavisd-new falls back to clamscan by default, if clamd is not available. Best regards -- Luca Gibelli (luca _at_ clamav.net) - ClamAV, a GPL anti-virus toolkit [Tel] +1 706 7054022 [Fax] +1 706 5345792 [IM] nervous/jabber.linux.it PGP key id 5EFC5582 @ key server || http://www.clamav.net/gpg/luca.gpg
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