On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:45:51PM -0500, Dale Blount said:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 18:39 +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > Would it be possible to attach gdb or strace to one of these hung
> > freshclams before killing them in the future?  I have an idea that the
> > problem may be that attempts to download updates that timeout aren't
> > getting properly terminated, leaving freshclam in a confused state, but
> > I am currently unable to reproduce this myself, so am looking for people
> > experiencing the problem to help.
> 
> I attached a strace to one of them but it didn't seem to do anything...
> I will try gdb next time.

Even knowing that it's stuck in a read instead of a sleep would be
useful, for instance, but gdb will likely get us more info anyway.

Thanks,
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