Hello all, I have a problem server as of late. It ran qmail+spamassassin+clamav with qmail-scanner for a couple years now. Intermittently, freshclam would die with an MD5 verification error, which hung the whole mail system. Downloading and replacing the main.cvd and/or the daily.cvd, then restarting clamd would fix it.
Lately, this has been happening almost daily. There's no real reason to the rhyme. Here's what I've done to try and remedy this: updated CLAMAV updated system BIOS Updated the kernel updated zlib replaced network card and cable completely removed all traces of clamav, and compiled (.0.88.7, just today) from source. used different database servers in freshclam.conf but the problem remains. I'm starting to believe it's a hardware error, if it weren't for the fact that this system runs a lot of other processes (apache, samba, etc) and none of them have any errors of any kind... yet clamd seems to fail regularly with the MD5 error. I've run memtest for 24 hours, and the memory comes up clean. I'm pulling my hair out here. There's no pattern to it, no schedule. Freshclam may run 50 times successfully before crapping out.. or it may only run 10 times. This is really frustrating, as the users are screaming at me every time the mail is down. It only takes a minute to re-download the cvd files and restart, but it's getting really old really fast. Any thoughts or ideas? The install is Redhat 9.0 based, running kernel 2.4.33-4 Thanks for your help in advance, Ed _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
