Re: [inbox] Re: [Clamav-users] off topic: virus of the day

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:26:18 +1100 John Egan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > The above link failed Fortunately, -- oo. Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\. http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8

[Clamav-users] Memory consumption

2005-03-09 Thread Calin A. Culianu
I noticed that at least with clamscan 0.83 that when scanning large files such as .iso cd image files, sometimes memory consumption of the clamscan process grows to ridiculous levels (as in, hundreds of megabytes). This isn't filesystem cache or buffers, but actual memory consumed by this proc

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory consumption

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:23:53 -0500 (EST) "Calin A. Culianu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could send an interested developer a .iso image that can > consistently reproduce the problem.. No, thanks. Please post the output of clamscan --debug instead. If it's big please only send it to bugs at cla

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory consumption

2005-03-09 Thread Nigel Horne
On Wednesday 09 Mar 2005 13:23, Calin A. Culianu wrote: > > I noticed that at least with clamscan 0.83 that when scanning large files > such as .iso cd image files, sometimes memory consumption of the clamscan > process grows to ridiculous levels (as in, hundreds of megabytes). Is the current

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory consumption

2005-03-09 Thread Calin A. Culianu
Good question. I will try it and let you know.. :/ On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Nigel Horne wrote: On Wednesday 09 Mar 2005 13:23, Calin A. Culianu wrote: I noticed that at least with clamscan 0.83 that when scanning large files such as .iso cd image files, sometimes memory consumption of the clamscan proc

Re: [Clamav-users] Memory consumption

2005-03-09 Thread Calin A. Culianu
I can confirm this happens with ClamAV devel-20050309 (the latest snapshot just freshly compiled). I have a 'top' screenshot to prove I am not crazy. I also have --debug output.. and can even do more with gdb if need be.. :) Any insights? BTW, the memory consumption peak coin

[Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
I'm having two pretty persistent problems with clamav. The first is that clamav is complaining about my version being out of date: WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Local v

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:54:22 -0500 (EST) "Jerry Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > trace of 0.81. But still it keeps happening! What am I missing? A properly installed new version. Read the archives of this list. > The database directory is /var/db/clamav. The permissions as as such: Does it ma

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
> A properly installed new version. Read the archives of this list. I've done so, and there are a lot of "what does this mean", and a fair number of people who have half installed old versions. I don't think that is the case for me. When I start up freshclam, I see this: freshclam daemon 0.83 (O

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:26:52 -0500 (EST) "Jerry Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems clear to me that I've got the right version, but SOMETHING is You've got the right version using old libs. Search the archives. -- oo. Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\.

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jerry Bell said: >> A properly installed new version. Read the archives of this list. > > I've done so, and there are a lot of "what does this mean", and a fair > number of people who have half installed old versions. I don't think that > is the case for me. Jerry - somewhere in your library path

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav update

2005-03-09 Thread .rp
On 8 Mar 2005 at 8:53, Trog wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:50 +0300, Jijos wrote: > > it is updated to 0.83 > > it saying in rpm -q clamav is 0.83 > > i don't want to uninstall the exsiting one it is intergrated with my > > mail server so i want to update it to 0.83 i updated it i want to > > c

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Johan Barelds
Since this problem show up so often isn't it a idea to take care of with a software solution instead of telling the user to search the archives? Ok, you can argue that it is not a fault in the software and the users own fault but since it happens so often it might be good support to take care of

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Johan Barelds wrote: > Since this problem show up so often isn't it a idea to take care of with a > software solution instead of telling the user to search the archives? I haven't run into this myself, but I have to say I've only seen this issue come on the the Clam list. N

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
Thank you for the detail here. Unfortunately, I had already done much of that. ldd confirms that both clamd and freshclam are linked to /usr/local/lib/libclamav.so.1 When I shut down clamd and freshclam, move that library out, and try to restart, both clamd and freshclam bomb out saying the libr

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Trog
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:47 -0500, Jerry Bell wrote: > Likewise, I have run strings on all libraries in /usr/local/lib and > /usr/lib looking for the string 0\.81 and have only found > /usr/local/lib//usr/local/lib/libclamav.so.1. Are you running under a chroot() somewhere? -trog signature.as

[Clamav-users] plz help me (QMAILQUEUE was not set)

2005-03-09 Thread Umar Draz
Hi Dear Members! i have seccessfuly configure clamav+qmail scaner on solaris 8 intel. when i use ./test_instaltion.sh –doit i got these line ... QMAILQUEUE was not set, defaulting to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl for this test... Sending standard test message - no viruses...

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > Since this problem show up so often isn't it a idea to take care of with a > software solution instead of telling the user to search the archives? > > Ok, you can argue that it is not a fault in the software and the users own > fault but since it happens so often it might be good support to

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > Thank you for the detail here. Unfortunately, I had already done much of > that. ldd confirms that both clamd and freshclam are linked to > /usr/local/lib/libclamav.so.1 And yet the problem exists. My self analysis when this happens is to assure myself that something I am certain of is wron

RE: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Bell > Sent: woensdag 9 maart 2005 19:48 > To: ClamAV users ML > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav > > > Thank you for the detail here. Unfortunately, I had alread

RE: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
> I have it working flawlessly on FreeBSD, too; so I know it works. :) I don't doubt at all that the problem is on my end. I just for the life of me can't figure out what it is. I've been doing this kind of thing for a long long time and it's just not apparent to me what the problem is. Normall

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On March 9, 2005 11:44 am, Jerry Bell wrote: > > find -X / -name "libclamav.so.1" | xargs ls -la > No luck there :( > >> /usr/local/lib//usr/local/lib/libclamav.so.1. > That is what you call a careless cut and paste. It is really > /usr/local/lib/libclamav.so.1 > I would have expected *some* tr

RE: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jerry Bell wrote: > I would have expected *some* trace of an old lib somewhere. I can't find > anything anywhere that has a version number of 0.81. It's not going to say 0.81 (not in the file name, at least). Ie: on my system, in /usr/local/lib I have: -rw-r--r--1 root

RE: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Ken Jones
>> I have it working flawlessly on FreeBSD, too; so I know it works. :) > > I don't doubt at all that the problem is on my end. I just for the life > of me can't figure out what it is. I've been doing this kind of thing for > a long long time and it's just not apparent to me what the problem is.

[Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread René Berber
Jerry Bell wrote: [snip] When I start up freshclam, I see this: freshclam daemon 0.83 (OS: freebsd5.2.1, ARCH: i386, CPU: i386) ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 9 10:06:35 2005 main.cvd is up to date (version: 30, sigs: 31086, f-level: 4, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up to date (version: 7

Re: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > > >> I have it working flawlessly on FreeBSD, too; so I know it works. :) > > > > I don't doubt at all that the problem is on my end. I just for the life > > of me can't figure out what it is. I've been doing this kind of thing for > > a long long time and it's just not apparent to me what

RE: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > René Berber > Sent: woensdag 9 maart 2005 21:02 > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Subject: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav > > > How do you start freshclam, as daemon or man

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
> How do you start freshclam, as daemon or manually to test it? It's sztarted as a daemon by a script. I have manually started it up with the same results. > > I don't agree with the library theory, it looks to me that you are > running at least two different copies of freshclam, one of them is t

RE: [Clamav-users] Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
> It's not going to say 0.81 (not in the file name, at least). That's correct. I was checking by grepping the "strings" output from each of the files. Here are my libraries: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 365010 Mar 4 14:59 /usr/local/lib/libclamav.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Mar 4 14:59

RE: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
> That sounds very plausible to me. :) Clever thinking. It might also > account for his permission problems (as the cron environment for that user > may differ). Trying "crontab -u clamav -l" might prove quite revealing. :) > I can say for certain that I did not put it into cron, and I have verif

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On March 9, 2005 01:33 pm, Jerry Bell wrote: > > How do you start freshclam, as daemon or manually to test it? > > It's sztarted as a daemon by a script. I have manually started it up > with the same results. > > > I don't agree with the library theory, it looks to me that you are > > running at l

[Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread René Berber
Freddie Cash wrote: [snip] Looking at the log output, it looks like you have two separate processes running. One that wakes up every 30 minutes at 22 after and 52 after. The other that wakes up at half-past (at least, there's not enough log output to confirm the pattern). The entries are very

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Todd Lyons
René Berber wanted us to know: >I agree with this, the log shows two different processes running, both >as daemon. >Could the start script run freshclam twice? No, when he upgraded from 0.81 to 0.83, it looks like the old process was never killed. It happily kept running. -- Regards...

RE: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > René Berber > Sent: woensdag 9 maart 2005 23:52 > To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > Subject: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav > > > I agree with this, the log shows two dif

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > > > Could the start script run freshclam twice? > > Or could /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ contain two differently named > startup scripts? That would do it, too. :) > > - Mark Lacking any other problem, one of the two has to launch an earlier version of the tool in order to generate the error shown

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > René Berber wanted us to know: > > >I agree with this, the log shows two different processes running, both > >as daemon. > >Could the start script run freshclam twice? > > No, when he upgraded from 0.81 to 0.83, it looks like the old process > was never killed. It happily kept running. > -

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Jerry Bell
It appears this was the case. I knew it was going to be something so completely simple that I would be shamed from the list for a while, but I was so far in the forest, I couldn't see the trees anymore. BTW, I have no idea how that happened. I am pretty diligent about shutting things down before

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jerry Bell said: > It appears this was the case. I knew it was going to be something so > completely simple that I would be shamed from the list for a while, but I > was so far in the forest, I couldn't see the trees anymore. Fehh - like we all haven't been there before. Have a beer on me - hopef

[Clamav-users] How to rotate the log file of clamav

2005-03-09 Thread ladha
Dear All,   I installed Clamav on my server.  The log file size is keep on increasing and it becomes huge in size. How to clear ClamAV logs?   Thanks & RegardsLadhaSoftware EngineerDevelopment TeamChennai, India. ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/cl

Re: [Clamav-users] How to rotate the log file of clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:11:21 +0530, ladha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I installed Clamav on my server. The log file size is keep on increasing > and it becomes huge in size. > How to clear ClamAV logs? Use whatever software (newsyslog, logrotate, etc) that came with your

Re: [Clamav-users] How to rotate the log file of clamav

2005-03-09 Thread ladha
I am using the following command to rotate the log files. /usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf But it is not cleaning the "clam-update.log" file - Original Message - From: "Rob MacGregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ClamAV users ML" Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:09 PM Subject: R