On 3/20/2019 2:57 PM, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users wrote: > On Wed 20/Mar/2019 14:53:28 +0100 Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> On 3/20/2019 8:42 AM, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users wrote: >>> On Tue 19/Mar/2019 15:35:39 +0100 Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> >>>> ClamAV is taking about 2 1/2 minutes to reload its database on my mail >>>> server. This >>>> seems to frequently happen when we are sending an email, so the >>>> Thunderbird will time >>>> out on the send (although the message will frequently go through anyway). >>> The mail server should scan the message with the database at hand. A >>> forked child can do the filtering while the parent reloads. Upon loading, >>> the child exits and new messages will be scanned by the parent with the >>> updated database. >> That would be ideal, but it doesn't seem to be happening that way. If I >> look at my >> logs, I see "SelfCheck", then "Reading databases", and at that point all >> scanning >> stops until the "Database correctly reloaded" message 2 1/2 minutes later. > > Are you using clamd directly (rather than libclamav)? How is it connected to > the mail server? > > >> Is there a setting somewhere to allow scanning to continue with the existing >> child >> processes while the reload happens? > > It has to be coded inside the mail filter; avfilter for Courier works that > way, > for one.
I am running Courier. I am currently calling clamd via pythonfilter. I'll have to take a look at avfilter. -- Bowie _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
