On Tue, 03 May 2005 11:05:28 -0400 "henry j. mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi clamav-users;
>
> i've been using clamav for a long time now, and love it
> dearly. however, once in a great while i get burned by
> outdated definitions. at one point it was just me not
> paying attention to the freshclam logfiles (i needed to
> upgrade) but more recently freshclam just failed silently
> and stopped logging. i actually had to kill -KILL the
> freshclam process, and restart it. once that was done,
> it grabbed the latest updates and all was well again.
>
> however. i need to know when freshclam fails silently.
> i know freshclam includes options to alert on errors,
> but i'd rather have some other process looking at it
> and making sure it's doing the right thing. has anyone
> tackled this problem? or is this just too obscure?
>
> my systems are:
> intel celeron 1.1 ghz / 512 mb / ide
> debian stable/testing with linux 2.6.4
> clamav/freshclam 0.83-5
>
> ultrasparc IIi 440 mhz / 512 mb / scsi
> debian stable/testing with linux 2.4.18
> clamav/freshclam 0.83-5
>
> other than the hardware and kernel these two systems
> have identical software configurations.
>
> i'm using amavis from debian testing, which is rather
> ancient but has given me no grief. both these systems
> failed around the same time (april 24) whereas two other
> almost identical systems (also an intel and another
> sparc) kept working perfectly.
>
> any ideas? i'm thinking about cobbling together something
There was a bug (causing random hangs) in freshclam that has been fixed
in 0.84:
Thu Feb 17 16:13:29 CET 2005 (tk)
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* freshclam/freshclam.c: do not call logg() in daemon_sighandler()
(patch by Trog)
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