[Clamav-users] Killing the clamd daemon

2004-08-21 Thread Randall Perry
I'm writing startup/shutdown scripts for clam daemons for Mac OS 10. They're working ok except I can't seem to do a clean shutdown of clamd -- sending it 'kill -TERM' does nothing, I have to 'kill -9' to stop it. Here's my start/stop code: StartService () { if ! pid=$(GetPID clamd); then

Re: [Clamav-users] daily.db.clamav.or.id : clamav db update via DNS

2004-08-21 Thread Erich Titl
At 08:06 21.08.2004 -0600, you wrote: Thats why the new method of using DNS to cache the version number will be a much better solution and I think it will allow more frequent checks without burdening the mirrors and shifting the load to the DNS infrastructure. I am not a DNS expert by any means

Re: [Clamav-users] daily.db.clamav.or.id : clamav db update via DNS

2004-08-21 Thread D.J. Fan
At 08:06 21.08.2004 -0600, you wrote: Thats why the new method of using DNS to cache the version number will be a much better solution and I think it will allow more frequent checks without burdening the mirrors and shifting the load to the DNS infrastructure. I am not a DNS expert by any means

AW: [Clamav-users] daily.db.clamav.or.id : clamav db update via DNS

2004-08-21 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi I am not a DNS expert by any means and I may be way off in left field here but you may want consider that there are many a server behind gateway appliances or proxies that cache DNS for a fixed length of time. I really have no idea if there are devices that do not obey refresh values but

Re: [Clamav-users] daily.db.clamav.or.id : clamav db update via DNS

2004-08-21 Thread Robert Blayzor
Ok, so we have freshclam, but what about making the databases available via rsync? rsync is a lot more efficient when transfering files like this where just the diffs to the files are sent. The problem with the DNS is how often people look for changes. If the TTL is low and people monitor it

[Clamav-users] milter errors

2004-08-21 Thread Scott Grayban
Hi, I installed clamav but I am getting errors with it. Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later Any ideas? TIA --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk

Re: [Clamav-users] daily.db.clamav.or.id : clamav db update via DNS

2004-08-21 Thread Mike Cathey
Comcast's caching resolvers appear to ignore TTLs. I've ran into this on a couple occasions. :\ On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 17:24, Robert Blayzor wrote: maybe we should just have a ton of public mirrors We already have a ton of public mirrors. ;) Seriously though, if you'd like to host a mirror,

Re: [Clamav-users] milter errors

2004-08-21 Thread Scott Grayban
I did see this in the syslog also... Aug 21 16:26:16 webcp clamav-milter[14068]: clamfi_header: Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ^Iby removed (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7LM4E5M032621; ^ISat, 21 Aug 2004 15:04:14 -0700 Aug 21 16:26:16 webcp clamav-milter[14068]: clamfi_header: Date: Sat, 21

Re: [Clamav-users] Idea for more timely virusdb updates

2004-08-21 Thread Tomasz Kojm
Hi, new freshclam is ready for testing: Sun Aug 22 02:07:13 CEST 2004 (tk) -- * freshclam: Support version verification through DNS (DNSDatabaseInfo). Based on idea by Christopher X. Candreva chris*westnet.com, see

Re: [Clamav-users] Idea for more timely virusdb updates

2004-08-21 Thread Marcus Grando
libresolv don't exist on FreeBSD. Regards gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/security/clamav-devel/work/clamav-devel-20040822/clamdscan' /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link cc -O3 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lcipher -o clamdscan

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-21 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 20, 2004, at 7:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rajanikanth P wrote: Hello D.J. Fan, But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And