G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > Some time ago somebody wrote, and somebody else replied: > >>>>> Why not just run freshclam as a daemon? >>>> Then you really need to have a daemon watcher to keep it going. > > Talk of freshclam dying gives me some discomfort, yet in almost two > years running freshclam as a daemon on two - not particularly busy - > servers I've never seen it fail. It uses around a megabyte of memory > on a machine with 2G of RAM and, doing hourly updates, it takes maybe > three seconds of CPU per month on a 1GHz twin-processor Pentium box. > > Naturally if freshclam dies we can expect people to mention it. I'm > calling for those who run freshclam as a daemon and who don't see any > problems with it to chip into this thread. How many of us are there?
Here's my 2 cents worth... SuSE Linux 10.1 (Intel, 32 bit). Latest freshclam and clamav. Both running as daemon at all times. Low volume site (maybe 100 mails/day, 5 users) Not a single problem, ever, although we've been running it for a few months only. We're using monit (and nagios) to monitor our (vital) processes, and we haven't had a single failure. /Lars > Here are the non-comment line in my config in case it has a bearing: > > DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav > UpdateLogFile /tmp/.clam/freshclam.log > LogVerbose > LogSyslog > PidFile /var/run/clam/freshclam.pid > DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net > DatabaseMirror db.uk.clamav.net > DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net > MaxAttempts 5 > Checks 24 > > Here's how I start it: > > /usr/local/bin/freshclam -d --daemon-notify=/etc/mail/clamav/clamd.conf > > Does anyone have any clues to the reasons behind freshclam's apparent > unreliability under some circumstances? Bad DB servers? Mail load? > Swap? Locking? Conflict with other processes? OS? Libraries? ... > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
