RE: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon

2006-12-29 Thread Barry Gill
Naturally if freshclam dies we can expect people to mention it. I'm calling for those who run freshclam as a daemon and who don't see any problems with it to chip into this thread. How many of us are there? I run freshclam in daemon mode for several servers processing several hundred

RE: [Clamav-users] Freshclam stability as a daemon

2006-12-29 Thread Barry Gill
On the subject of Cron, When I was still running Fedora Core 3, I was running my freshclam's using cron but found from time to time that when I came in to work in the morning I would have 20 to 30 cron processes still holding on chewing up resource but not finishing off anything. This caused me

RE: [Clamav-users] Re: To ClamAV Developers: donation question

2006-11-08 Thread Barry Gill
In other words, you are looking for a tax write off. Not even, just something so that the auditors have a paper trail and don't think funds are being missapropriated. I would imagine that the legal entity of ClamAV is not registered in the same tax neighbourhood as a great may of its users and

RE: [Clamav-users] Cherishing my ignorance - An appeal to package rs

2006-11-07 Thread Barry Gill
If it runs out of cron it runs for just milli- seconds - other wise it is in the proc table Assuming of course that you don't end up with hundreds of spawned cron jons. For some reason, I have seen more often than I care to think, multiple cron jobs firing off freshclam and then not hanging up.

RE: [Clamav-users] Can I give clam a list of files to scan

2006-09-08 Thread Barry Gill
find (options) | xargs clamscan So to search all files in home find /home/ |xargs clamscan Or to scan only certain files of specified size (thanks to Noel Jones for this one) find / -type f -size N | xargs clamscan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Clamav-users] Can I give clam a list of files to scan

2006-09-08 Thread Barry Gill
Or if you maintain a file with the filenames and paths that you want to scan, you can use cat to output each line of that file to clamscan in the same fashion. cat filename | xargs clamscan ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

RE: [Clamav-users] Can I give clam a list of files to scan

2006-09-08 Thread Barry Gill
xargs is still limited by max line length, so this needs to be done with care. Perl can also be used in place of clamdscan to feed file names to clamd (which must be run as root). The advantage of Perl is it can iterate over an array and of course manage all the logging. Also, depending on how

[Clamav-users] Community support (Was clamav crashes server)

2006-09-06 Thread Barry Gill
Now now children, The point of mail lists is to provide help and support, not to provide banter. Either way, millions of people around the world provide and are provided support through community efforts such as this. Giving someone an answer outright limits their requirement to think about

RE: [Clamav-users] freshclam not seeing change of clamav

2006-08-09 Thread Barry Gill
you also need to make sure that the query dns line is uncommented, freshclam will not start without this and reports the same error ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

[Clamav-users] 64bit bug in 0.88.1 fixed? in 0.88.2

2006-04-30 Thread Barry Gill
Hello All, I see 0.88.2 has now been released, and in the release notes it is stated that fixes zip handling on 64-bit architectures Does this resolve the segmentation fault issue discussed in the clam-avuser list at http://lurker.clamav.net/thread/20060424.005622.682e68d4.en.html clamav-0.88.1