Hello Hans, Please send your clamd.conf to me at [email protected]. If you can identify a file or email that causes the failure, that will help as well. In the meantime, I'll find a place where you can send your core file.
Thanks, Steve On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:46 AM, MAYER Hans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear ClamAv Users, > > In my environment I have 2 external mail gateway in the DMZ, forwarding > all e-mails to an internal mail server. > All of them are running Solaris 11 with sendmail and mimedefang as milter. > I am running this constellation since about more than a year very > successfully without any downtime till 2 weeks. > > Around 2 weeks ago all 3 servers stopped working for mail forwarding > because the process clamd core dumped. > At that time I had in use a beta version of 0.98.4 it was clamav-0.98.4-rc1 > I traced back the problem due to the fact I didn't use the latest version. > So I upgraded to clamav-0.98.4 and in the same step also mimedefang to the > latest version 2.75 > This is how mimedefang involves clamd in /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl > $Features{'Virus:CLAMD'} = ('/usr/local/sbin/clamd' ne '/bin/false' ? > '/usr/local/sbin/clamd' : 0); > The system worked stable for 2 weeks. > > Yesterday evening I noticed the same problem. A restart didn't help. After > short time clamed crashed again. > As short solution I disabled the virus scanning overnight. > Today I have a stable situation without changing anything. Of course > pattern updates are running. > I assume an ugly attachment did crash the virus scanning process. Now this > mail is passed and it's running fine. > > I am worried about the fact that the ClamAV solution becomes more and more > instable. > > How can I support the ClamAV team with additional information to reach a > stable system again ? > What I have is a 305 MB core dump from clamd for Sparc platform. But I > think, this will not help. > In the meantime I started clamd with the option --debug > Till now I didn't find any entries in the syslog. > > Kind regards > Hans > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
