I think this was mentioned in a man page somewhere... I believe that clam would return a timeout error, and what happens with that depends on the script that calls clamdscan. If it accepts nothing other than success, the mail should be deferred and tried again later by the MTA.
not authoritive, but hope it helps. m/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yury > Tarasievich > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 6:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Clamav-users] daemon restarting while clamdscan is running > > > Hello, > > What happens if clamd is restarted while clamdscan was running? > Clamdscan just completes its job and returns OK status? > Or?.. > > regards, > Yury. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Clamav-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users