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 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
