On 5 Jul 2006 at 13:15, Stephen Gran wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:30:26PM +0100, Beginner said: > > I am not getting any joy with the -f or -ff switch. When I try > > > > >strace -o clam-debug.txt -ff clamd > > > > It only creates one process: > > > > clamav 4648 0.0 1.6 26904 20984 ? Ts 12:19 0:00 clamd > > This process is suspended - did you <ctl>-z it? You'll need to just > leave it running until you get some defunct zombies.
No I simply issue the command and wait. Without the -f switch I get 3 process within 2 minutes and a defunct process within 3 minutes. Once I try and use the -ff option the process gets suspended, I only get one clamd parent. >strace -ff -o clamv.txt /usr/sbin/clamd >ps aux|grep clam clamav 18712 0.0 1.6 26912 20984 ? Ts 14:41 0:00 /usr/sbin/clamd >strace -o clamv.txt /usr/sbin/clamd >ps aux|grep clam clamav 18453 0.0 1.6 28960 21176 ? Ss 14:39 0:00 /usr/sbin/clamd clamav 18480 0.0 1.6 28960 21176 ? S 14:39 0:00 /usr/sbin/clamd clamav 18481 1.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:39 0:00 [clamd] <defunct> I think this might be part of the same problem. I have moved in /tmp in case there were permissions problem with my home dir but that hasn't helped. > This works fine here: > sudo strace -o clamv.txt -ff /usr/sbin/clamd So I tried this >/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon restart >ps -ef|grep clam clamav 19989 1 0 14:53 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/clamd >strace -ff -o clamd1.txt -p 19989 Process 19989 attached - interrupt to quit Process 20081 attached Process 20082 attached Process 20082 detached Process 20320 attached Process 20320 detached Process 20638 attached in the meantime >ps -ef |grep clam root 20024 19414 0 14:53 pts/0 00:00:00 strace -ff -o clamd1.txt -p 19989 clamav 19989 1 0 14:53 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/clamd clamav 20081 19989 0 14:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/clamd clamav 20082 20081 0 14:54 ? 00:00:01 [clamd] <defunct> clamav 20320 20081 0 14:56 ? 00:00:00 [clamd] <defunct> clamav 20638 20081 0 14:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/clamd and presto! root 593920 2006-07-05 15:01 clamfile.tar root 19591 2006-07-05 15:00 clamd1.txt.20081 root 7142 2006-07-05 15:00 clamd1.txt root 109917 2006-07-05 15:00 clamd1.txt.20638 root 228202 2006-07-05 14:59 clamd1.txt.20320 root 217694 2006-07-05 14:56 clamd1.txt.20082 I'll mail you files off-list. Thanx. Dp. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
