On 9/20/2014 8:26 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> On 09/20/2014 07:14 AM, Eric Broch wrote:
>> On 9/20/2014 7:56 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>>> On 09/19/2014 10:35 PM, Eric Broch wrote:
>>>> On 9/19/2014 8:42 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>>>>> On 09/19/2014 05:33 PM, Eric Broch wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/19/2014 6:01 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>>>>>>> I'd say that's very likely to be the cause. Any errors involved
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> scanning can cause a soft reject like this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas why a tmp file/dir could not be created
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> My best guess would be that the filesystem filled up momentarily.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps it's on a network connection that was unavailable?
>>>>> Permissions?
>>>>>
>>>> The files system is the /tmp directory which is 10GB and is not on a
>>>> network connection. The permissions on the /tmp are rwxrwxrwxt. I'm
>>>> not
>>>> sure if any of these are the problem. It's bothersome not to known
>>>> what
>>>> may be causing this.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, if It happens again can clam be disabled by simply putting
>>>> clam=no in the simcontrol file and rebuilding the cdb database?
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>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> I wonder if the gnome desktop programs might be a clue to this. You
>>> might try going to runlevel 3 next time and see if that cures it. It's
>>> entirely possible that something in gnome went bonkers writing to a
>>> tmp file.
>>>
>>> BL, there appears to be something in your system that's not playing
>>> nice with /tmp/. The only things I can think of that would prohibit
>>> creating a local directory is space and permissions.
>>>
>>> clamav can be configured to use whatever other directory you want for
>>> tmp, but I wouldn't go there except as a last resort, as it would make
>>> upgrading a pain should any stock changes need to be made to
>>> clamd.conf.
>>>
>> I was running, for quite some time, wireshark-gnome. I wonder it that
>> could be it.
>>
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>
> That would certainly create a lot of data. Could've filled up the
> filesystem I suppose, depending on how long "quite some time" is. ;)
>
>
Yup! Wireshark creates a file in the /tmp directory and keeps adding to
it. As soon as it's shutdown the file goes away. I think "quite some
time" was 1 day.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, EricS.

EricB

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