On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 14:54, Dale Blount wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:27 -0500, Dale Blount wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Every few months or so when a new clamav comes out, I go to update all > > of my servers to the latest version. The last few updates have caused > > me a little grief because on restarting of clamd/freshclam, it reports > > that freshclam wasn't running. This time I remembered to check before > > upgrading. This is on one host (of about 10) running Linux 2.6 and > > 0.87. Most upgrades anywhere from 2-4 of the 10 hosts have a dead > > freshclam. > > On closer review, there are 4 more hosts with out of date cvd files but > freshclam is still running (but braindead). > > 3 of the hosts had the exact same size/date output: > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 149286 2005-11-04 08:50 daily.cvd > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 2560365 2005-11-04 08:50 main.cvd > > the 4th host had this: > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 102909 2005-10-14 04:02 daily.cvd > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 2560365 2005-09-16 11:34 main.cvd > > > This makes 5 of 8 systems where freshclam stopped being functional. 2 > of the 4 above needed kill -9 to die, the other 2 died on a normal kill > signal. > > Is the general consensus to follow Dennis Peterson's suggestion and run > freshclam from crond? That seems more like a work around than a fix, > but I appreciate the option.
This is a bit of a long shot, but try renaming /etc/init.d/freshclam to /etc/init.d/freshclamd, and remember to update the start/kill symlinks I'm not sure if this explanation makes sense, but kill -TERM freshclam appeared to be operating on the init.d file rather than the executable itself, changing the name solved the problem. This occurred some time ago and my recollection of the incident is a bit hazy. OS distro is Debian. > > Dale > > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com ----------------- _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
