On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 at 6:42:33 -0700, Hal Goldfarb wrote: > On Monday 24 January 2005 05:21, Tomasz Papszun wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 at 3:04:22 -0700, Hal Goldfarb wrote: > > > [...] > > > Problem: When I run clamdscan (which uses the daemon), it generates > > > zillions of errors in the clamd.log file something like "Directory > > > recursion limit exceeded at /home/hal/.tvtime". However, when I run > > > clamscan (which does not use the daemon, right?), > > [...] > > > > How many levels of subdirectories have you got under /home/hal/.tvtime ? > > That directory is a leaf node. Just a couple of xml files, not archived or > compressed. > > > As clamdscan is only an interface to clamd, the way it works depends on > > clamd.conf. To be sure what settings are used for clamd, you have to > > check the contents of clamd.conf. > > OK, I see what you mean: The MaxDirectoryRecursion parameter, > aforementioned, is the symmetric partner of clamdscan's "-r" option.
clamdscan has _no_ "-r" option. > This is a brand new, first time installation of clamav. > > Could this be a memory leak of some kind? I doubt it. Try to experiment with setting other values of MaxDirectoryRecursion (and don't forget to reload the clamd). Also, try to reproduce the error in some other, nested directories (e.g. created for testing purposes). -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/iso/ | ones and zeros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
