RE: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon

2006-12-29 Thread Barry Gill
> 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? I run freshclam in daemon mode for several servers processing several hundred tho

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
G.W. Haywood wrote: > 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? We're running freshclam as a daemon - probably for about 2 years, I'm not sure. AFAIK, we have not seen any stability problem

RE: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon

2006-12-29 Thread Barry Gill
On the subject of Cron, When I was still running Fedora Core 3, I was running my freshclam's using cron but found from time to time that when I came in to work in the morning I would have 20 to 30 cron processes still holding on chewing up resource but not finishing off anything. This caused me i

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon

2006-12-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Barry Gill wrote: On the subject of Cron, When I was still running Fedora Core 3, I was running my freshclam's using cron but found from time to time that when I came in to work in the morning I would have 20 to 30 cron processes still holding on chewing up resource but not finishing off anythin

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update

2006-12-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
> > Dennis Peterson wrote: > > [60 lines snipped] > > > > I can only tell you from my experience with several years and many > > versions of ClamAV that I have found no advantage in any category to > > running freshclam as a daemon, and running it in cron gives me many > > options not otherwise

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Fri, December 29, 2006 3:54 pm, Dennis Peterson said: > This thread has become fractious (I claim some responsibility) and > unhelpful to the project. Fortunately ClamAV supports all our methods and > we can apply our own disciplines to the problems we each see and that's a > good thing. Jus

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
Daniel T. Staal wrote: > Has anyone tried both? What happens if you try to run freshclam as a > daemon and from cron? (Assuming you schedule them to run at different > times, of course. If they both checked at the same time I would > expect something to bork.) If they both ran at the same time

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Lars Stavholm
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 runnin

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Brian Morrison
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:31:29 + (GMT) "G.W. Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:31 +, 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. > Naturally if freshclam dies we can expect peopl

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread George R . Kasica
Two Linux boxes here, one Generic (used to be Caldera 2.2) and one Fedora Core 5 been running it on both for close to 18 monthsnot one failure that I'm aware of. Both boxes are fairly busy as well, the caldera is an email/list/web box and the FC5 is a weather map server/forecasting tools system

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
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 dae

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Jim Maul
Dennis Peterson wrote: 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 ru

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Maurice Lucas
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:31 +, 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 discomf

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jim Maul wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: This is not rocket science. Who said it was? The OP clearly asked for people who run freshclam as a daemon who have NOT had problems with it in the setup. You are not one of those people so im still trying to figure out why you felt the need to p

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Jim Maul
Dennis Peterson wrote: Jim Maul wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: This is not rocket science. Who said it was? The OP clearly asked for people who run freshclam as a daemon who have NOT had problems with it in the setup. You are not one of those people so im still trying to figure out why

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread Per Jessen
Dennis Peterson wrote: [60 lines snipped] > > I can only tell you from my experience with several years and many > versions of ClamAV that I have found no advantage in any category to > running freshclam as a daemon, and running it in cron gives me many > options not otherwise available - not the

Re: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon [was: DB Update email before actual update available?]

2006-12-29 Thread John Rudd
Per Jessen wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: And as an old school Unix admin who still believes in the mentoring responsibility of my position, I will make recommendations from time to time regarding best practices and I recommend if you run freshclam as a daemon that you monitor it and restart