On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:43, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> > Here too, updates stopped on august 16th.
> >
> > On 6 out of 6 mailservers running clamav, something went very wrong on
> > august 16th.
>
> I run freshclam out of cron so would never have had this problem. I see
> failures all the time - 'Mirrors not fully...', etc., but it finally
> gets a fresh pattern.
Ditto. I used to run all of my freshclam procs as daemons. However, a while
back I switched all of our machines (mostly Solaris 9 & 10, sparc) running
freshclam to use a cron job instead of daemon mode.
As of 0.88.1 I began seeing a "silent death" problem in the freshclam daemon
(it seemed to die with a SIGPIPE). Mine was a somewhat different issue than
the problem reported today as I never had a freshclam process just hang and
do nothing. If mine choked, they died completely.
In my experience, freshclam in cron is the way to go. I haven't had any
trouble with it whatsoever since I switched.
--
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Julius "Groucho" Marx, 1890-1977
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