Re: [Clamav-users] /var/tmp/clamav-partial hanging around

2005-05-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Monday 02 May 2005 18:30, jef moskot wrote: If I do the #24 testvirus test ( http://www.webmail.us/testvirus ), the mail is delivered properly (which is fine, because there's no virus in there), but I also get a little file in /var/tmp/clamav-partial named something like partialmsg###

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Monday 02 May 2005 23:08, Pete 'Wolfy' Hanson wrote: Upgrading didn't seem to help me, though maybe it slowed down the crash rate - I just had another crash about an hour ago. I'm getting slammed at postmaster each time it crashes. This was in the logs from the latest crash: May 2

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Trog
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:19 -0500, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: I'm having lots of customers call up saying their clamd is segfaulting.. installations that have been around for many months (0.80) and all of a sudden, later in the week last week.. everyone's been having problems with clamd

Re: [Clamav-users] virus questions

2005-05-03 Thread Trog
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 23:55 -0700, Joanna Roman wrote: How are virues like IRC.LXD.A, IRC.Gadez.A encountered ? When a user submit a virus, how do clamav team know that they are of IRC types ??? Just curious . Generally because they are in the form of IRC client software macro files (mIRC INI

[Clamav-users] Updating via freshclam without clamd?

2005-05-03 Thread Andy Schofield
Hi, Is there any way of stopping freshclam from trying to notify clamd? I use clamscan occasionally and I don't want to have the clamd daemon running. When I run freshclam I always get the error: ERROR: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd on 127.0.0.1:3310 I would like to tell

Re: [Clamav-users] Updating via freshclam without clamd?

2005-05-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
Andy Schofield wrote: Hi, Is there any way of stopping freshclam from trying to notify clamd? I use clamscan occasionally and I don't want to have the clamd daemon running. When I run freshclam I always get the error: ERROR: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd on

Re: [Clamav-users] Updating via freshclam without clamd?

2005-05-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 13:13, Andy Schofield wrote: Is there any way of stopping freshclam from trying to notify clamd? man freshclam.conf Andy -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Typesetter. NJH Music, Barnsley, UK. ICQ#20252325 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bandsman.co.uk

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Mike Lambert
Trog wrote: Several. We don't release software updates for our own amusement. A responsible system admin should always look to upgrade to the current stable version as soon as possible after it is released. The responsible admin will evaluate the pros and cons of _any_ software release and choose

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Trog
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:23 -0400, Mike Lambert wrote: The responsible admin will evaluate the pros and cons of _any_ software release and choose what is best for his/her environment. The difficultly with any project in development, including ClamAV, is that current and stable do not

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 13:23, Mike Lambert wrote: Now that we have reports of spam crashing v0.80, it is time for me to test v0.84. Your use the the word now makes it sound like this is something new only recently discovered. You seem to be ignoring the fact that this was known about, and

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 03 May 2005 08:23:38 -0400 Mike Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that we have reports of spam crashing v0.80, it is time for me to test v0.84. If I was your boss, I'd fire you. Admins who wait with an update until a software (especially a mission critical one responsible for

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Mike Lambert
Nigel Horne wrote: On Tuesday 03 May 2005 13:23, Mike Lambert wrote: Now that we have reports of spam crashing v0.80, it is time for me to test v0.84. Your use the the word now makes it sound like this is something new only recently discovered. Nope, just new to me. I read today's posts as

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Mike Lambert
Trog wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:23 -0400, Mike Lambert wrote: The responsible admin will evaluate the pros and cons of _any_ software release and choose what is best for his/her environment. The difficultly with any project in development, including ClamAV, is that current and stable do

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Mike Lambert wrote: I meant the most stable before 0.84. Sorry for the confusion. If you had stability problem on 0.81, 0.82, and 0.83 -- did you post them ? Sorry if I missed it, but I don't recall seeing anything posted about stability problems on those version. Our

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Mike Lambert
Tomasz Kojm wrote: On Tue, 03 May 2005 08:23:38 -0400 Mike Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that we have reports of spam crashing v0.80, it is time for me to test v0.84. If I was your boss, I'd fire you. Admins who wait with an update until a software (especially a mission critical one

[Clamav-users] Re: clamav with postfix

2005-05-03 Thread Raphael Posmyk
ankush grover wrote at Montag, 2. Mai 2005 11:06: a) ... in Postfix to make it run with Postfix. b) ... Check the Third-party software section on the clamav web site: http://www.clamav.net/3rdparty.html#mta c)I ran the clamscan on the FC3 and clamav says there are 8 infected files.I

[Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread henry j. mason
hi clamav-users; i've been using clamav for a long time now, and love it dearly. however, once in a great while i get burned by outdated definitions. at one point it was just me not paying attention to the freshclam logfiles (i needed to upgrade) but

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 08:23 am, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Mike Lambert wrote: I meant the most stable before 0.84. Sorry for the confusion. If you had stability problem on 0.81, 0.82, and 0.83 -- did you post them ? Sorry if I missed it, but I don't recall seeing

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 03 May 2005 11:05:28 -0400 henry j. mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi clamav-users; i've been using clamav for a long time now, and love it dearly. however, once in a great while i get burned by outdated definitions. at one point it was just me not

RE: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: henry j. mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i need to know when freshclam fails silently. i know freshclam includes options to alert on errors, but i'd rather have some other process looking at it and making sure it's doing the right thing. has anyone

RE: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Kojm Sent: dinsdag 3 mei 2005 14:51 To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday On Tue, 03 May 2005 08:23:38 -0400 Mike Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050503 18:38]: wrote: From: henry j. mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i need to know when freshclam fails silently. i know freshclam includes options to alert on errors, but i'd rather have some other process looking at it and making

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Lamy
Bowie Bailey schrieb: From: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050503 18:38]: wrote: From: henry j. mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i need to know when freshclam fails silently. i know freshclam includes options to alert on errors

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread henry j. mason
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Why don't people think about the KISS principle? freshclam can run in foreground, just like clamd and daemontools were written by DJB, no? I run clamd via daemontools, and I believe freshclam can also be run same way, so no re-invention of wheels. uh, because

Re: [Clamav-users] CLAMD+SIMSCAN+RAR V3 SUPPORT

2005-05-03 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:58:48 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with .RAR files version 3. RAR module failure ERROR. This error is for the version of .RAR file. Clamd does not support V3. How I solve the problem of scan v3 Rar archives? With

Re: [Clamav-users] CLAMD+SIMSCAN+RAR V3 SUPPORT

2005-05-03 Thread q#
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:18:13PM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:58:48 +0200 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with .RAR files version 3. RAR module failure ERROR. This error is for the version of .RAR file. Clamd does not

[Clamav-users] Virus slip?

2005-05-03 Thread Pete D
I am currently running ClamAV 0.83 with clamav-milter and just recently received an infected email with a zip attachment. Strange thing is that clamdscan does not detect the virus while clamscan does. # clamdscan error-mail_info.zip /tmp/error-mail_info.zip: OK --- SCAN SUMMARY

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus slip?

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Pete D wrote: False alarm. I ended up restarting things and now both clamdscan and clamscan detect the virus properly. Weird. You will still want to upgrade to 0.84 == Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914)

[Clamav-users] Re: clamav-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 7

2005-05-03 Thread Dwayne Hottinger
From: Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog? To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii * Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050503 18:38]: wrote: From: henry j. mason [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Clamav-users] CLAMD+SIMSCAN+RAR V3 SUPPORT

2005-05-03 Thread Brian Morrison
On Tue, 03 May 2005 18:55:15 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:18 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: Pretty sure that clamd from 0.84 supports RAR v3 archive scanning. Only CVS currently supports RAR3 scanning. Oh OK, I thought the new RAR code

Re: [Clamav-users] CLAMD+SIMSCAN+RAR V3 SUPPORT

2005-05-03 Thread Jim Maul
Brian Morrison wrote: On Tue, 03 May 2005 18:55:15 +0100 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:18 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: Pretty sure that clamd from 0.84 supports RAR v3 archive scanning. Only CVS currently supports RAR3 scanning. Oh OK, I thought the

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Pete 'Wolfy' Hanson
On 5/2/05, Nigel Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 May 2005 23:08, Pete 'Wolfy' Hanson wrote: slammed at postmaster each time it crashes. This was in the logs from the latest crash: May 2 14:22:24 smtp clamav-milter[153]: ClamAv: setsockopt() failed (Invalid argument) If

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd segfaulting as of about thursday

2005-05-03 Thread Pete 'Wolfy' Hanson
Somehow or other, that -B flag is being set when clamav-milter restarts following the reload. FWIW, the problem is happening on both Solaris 2.8 and 2.6 systems (on the 2.8 system, there are no logged error messages - the milter simply stops responding, and everything needs to be restarted).

[Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread rick pim
environment: solaris 5.9, sendmail 8.13.2, clamav .84 (w/clamav-milter). i upgraded to .84 yesterday with (as far as i could tell) no problems. things started afterwards and ran as expected. there were problems yesterday afternoon but i restarted things and everything looked fine. this

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 3 May 2005, rick pim wrote: May 3 15:47:21 sennit sendmail[14381]: [ID 801593 mail.error] j43JlKch014381: Milter (clamav): error connecting to filter: Connection refused by /var/clamav/clmilter.sock May 3 15:47:21 sennit sendmail[14381]: [ID 801593 mail.info] j43JlKch014381:

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread rick pim
Not to be obvious, but was clamav-milter running ? (And clamd, if you run with --external ). meant to include that. yesterday clamav-milter had died. today it hadn't: # ps -ef | grep clam root 19241 21218 0 16:37:14 pts/30:00 grep clam clamav 13432 1 0 20:20:17 ?

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Nigel Horne
A. On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 21:41, rick pim wrote: environment: solaris 5.9, sendmail 8.13.2, clamav .84 (w/clamav-milter). i upgraded to .84 yesterday with (as far as i could tell) no problems. things started afterwards and ran as expected. there were problems yesterday afternoon but i

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Nigel Horne wrote: clamav-milter, clamd.conf, /etc/mail/sendmail.mc etc etc. Mind you I am worried about the mode 777 for clamd.sock, if nothing else that seems like a security breach to me. I don't recall the particulars, but I ran into the same problem where clamd.sock

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread rick pim
None without some information such as options used to start clamav-milter, clamd.conf, /etc/mail/sendmail.mc etc etc. clamav-milter is started with: clamav-milter -PHl --postmaster=root -m 64 /var/clamav/clmilter.sock here's an extract from clamd.conf: # grep -v ^# clamd.conf | grep -v

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread Dennis Peterson
henry j. mason said: hi clamav-users; any ideas? i'm thinking about cobbling together something in perl to run from a cron job. tia henry Screw the daemon - run it out of cron. Script: freshclam.sh #!/bin/bash # run freshclam at random intervals 3 times/hour

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 3 May 2005, rick pim wrote: clamav-milter is started with: clamav-milter -PHl --postmaster=root -m 64 /var/clamav/clmilter.sock OK, without --external, clamav-milter isn't useing clamd, it's useing it's calling libclamav directly. You might try adding --external. It looks like the

RE: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Jose Luis Hime
You might try adding --external. It looks like the people posting about clamav-milter problems are all not useing --external. That´s true. It is not clear in the docs that --external is faster or more reliable. I will change my configuration and test it. Thanks for the tip! Jose Hime

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 22:07, rick pim wrote: None without some information such as options used to start clamav-milter, clamd.conf, /etc/mail/sendmail.mc etc etc. clamav-milter is started with: clamav-milter -PHl --postmaster=root -m 64 /var/clamav/clmilter.sock here's an

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Nigel Horne
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 22:23, Jose Luis Hime wrote: You might try adding --external. It looks like the people posting about clamav-milter problems are all not useing --external. That´s true. It is not clear in the docs that --external is faster or more reliable. It's more secure, uses

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Nigel Horne wrote: That´s true. It is not clear in the docs that --external is faster or more reliable. It's more secure, uses less memory and doesn't use IPC so it's faster. I'm not saying it's more or less anything. However, since I'm using --external and not

RE: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Jose Luis Hime
Excuse me for my misunderstanding, but is there any special configuration I should do to use --external ? I read the man page for clamav-milter and I have one doubt: -e, --external Usually clamav-milter scans the

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread rick pim
Mind you I am worried about the mode 777 for clamd.sock, if nothing else that seems like a security breach to me. true. but it seems to do that itself: # ls -al /var/clamav/ total 4 drwxr-x--- 2 clamav clamav 512 May 3 17:02 ./ drwxr-xr-x 32 root sys 512 Feb 11 13:21

RE: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
rick pim wrote: Mind you I am worried about the mode 777 for clamd.sock, if nothing else that seems like a security breach to me. true. but it seems to do that itself: srwxrwxrwx 1 clamav clamav 0 May 3 17:06 clamd.sock= Stop me if I'm wrong but I think that's just the

RE: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 3 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mind you I am worried about the mode 777 for clamd.sock, if nothing else that seems like a security breach to me. true. but it seems to do that itself: srwxrwxrwx 1 clamav clamav 0 May 3 17:06 clamd.sock= Stop me if

Re: [Clamav-users] problems after .84 upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 3 May 2005 16:24:04 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rick pim wrote: Mind you I am worried about the mode 777 for clamd.sock, if nothing else that seems like a security breach to me. true. but it seems to do that itself: srwxrwxrwx 1 clamav clamav 0 May 3

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam watchdog?

2005-05-03 Thread Matt Fretwell
Dennis Peterson wrote: any ideas? i'm thinking about cobbling together something in perl to run from a cron job. Screw the daemon - run it out of cron. At last, a sensible suggestion :) Cronning it does make the daemon hanging pretty much a moot point :) Matt