[Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Hauke Duden
Hello all, I just compiled and installed a fresh version of clamav (0.96) from source on an Ubuntu box (8.10). Compiling and installing went well. I also ran the unit tests and they all passed. But I then did a full scan of the machine and got lots and lots of warnings like this:

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Török Edwin
On 2010-04-18 22:39, Hauke Duden wrote: Hello all, I just compiled and installed a fresh version of clamav (0.96) from source on an Ubuntu box (8.10). Compiling and installing went well. I also ran the unit tests and they all passed. But I then did a full scan of the machine and got lots

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Hauke Duden
On 18 Apr 2010, at 21:47, Török Edwin wrote: On 2010-04-18 22:39, Hauke Duden wrote: Compiling and installing went well. I also ran the unit tests and they all passed. But I then did a full scan of the machine and got lots and lots of warnings like this: LibClamAV Warning: pread fail:

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Chris Meadors
On 4/18/2010 5:16 PM, Hauke Duden wrote: I did what you asked me to do and it seems that the problem is not in clamav. The files in question are marked as having a size of 4096, but when I open them I only get a few bytes of data. The strange thing is that they are all in /sys. Some in

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 4/18/10 3:11 PM, Hauke Duden wrote: OK. Sorry for the confusion. Shouldn't this be in the FAQ (or was I just too blind to find it?)? I'd hate to think that I am the only one making this mistake. ClamAV is an antivirus tool. It is reasonable to expect it will be used on file systems

Re: [Clamav-users] Lots of pread fail warnings during scanning

2010-04-18 Thread Hauke Duden
On 19 Apr 2010, at 00:22, Dennis Peterson wrote: On 4/18/10 3:11 PM, Hauke Duden wrote: OK. Sorry for the confusion. Shouldn't this be in the FAQ (or was I just too blind to find it?)? I'd hate to think that I am the only one making this mistake. ClamAV is an antivirus tool. It is