severity 426503 normal thanks This one time, at band camp, Tim Van Holder said: > This past weekend, freshclam seems to have had serious issues contacting > the db mirrors. This would not be a big deal in and of itself, but it > seems to have caused a more serious situation to occur. > > On Sunday morning, the clam daemon exit with a fatal error: > > Sun May 27 08:18:30 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database modification detected. > Forcing reload. > Sun May 27 08:18:30 2007 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav > Sun May 27 08:20:40 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database > directory (try 1) > Sun May 27 08:22:50 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database > directory (try 2) > Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database > directory (try 3) > Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database > directory > Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> Terminating because of a fatal error. > Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> Socket file removed. > Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> ERROR: Can't unlink the pid file > /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid > > So it seems to me that freshclam had the database locked for updating > (for a long time due to the db server connectivity issues), causing the > daemon to terminate (and by default there is no cronjob/inittab entry > to restart it when it fails). > As a result the mail queue this morning had over 14000 messages (where > we normally hover around 3000, most of which are failing attempts at > sending bounce notices for spam that didn't score high enough to be > discarded).
I'm not all that interested in a severity war, but as this is clearly a design decision by upstream, and not a bug, I am downgrading the severity of the report. I agree it's a problem, and I'm looking at it, but as it is a 'feature', I'm not going to keep other fixes out of testing because of this. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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