Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Bill Landry wrote: >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> I don't know when clamd will self-check. Do you? > That can be disable in clamd.conf and then reloads scripted: > > SelfCheck 0 >

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Bill Landry wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> Bill Landry wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: > I don't know when clamd will self-check. Do you? That can be disable in clamd.conf and then reloads scripted: SelfCheck 0 Then you will see in the

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Bill Landry wrote: >>> Dennis Peterson wrote: I don't know when clamd will self-check. Do you? >>> That can be disable in clamd.conf and then reloads scripted: >>> >>> SelfCheck 0 >>> >>> Then you will see in the clamd.log on restart: >>> >>> Wed

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Bill Landry wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: > >>> I don't know when clamd will self-check. Do you? >> That can be disable in clamd.conf and then reloads scripted: >> >> SelfCheck 0 >> >> Then you will see in the clamd.log on restart: >> >> Wed Mar 4 20:11:41 2009 -> Self

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> I don't know when clamd will self-check. Do you? > > That can be disable in clamd.conf and then reloads scripted: > > SelfCheck 0 > > Then you will see in the clamd.log on restart: > > Wed Mar 4 20:11:41 2009 -> Self checking disabled. Not on my

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Bill Landry wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: >> >>> It doesn't matter - I use rsync in these situations because all moves are >>> atomic, all the time. >>> >>> I have a mail server farm that includes production and dev systems, and NFS >>> is >>> used to access a large Z

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > >> It doesn't matter - I use rsync in these situations because all moves are >> atomic, all the time. >> >> I have a mail server farm that includes production and dev systems, and NFS >> is >> used to access a large ZFS file system to redistribute t

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: > It doesn't matter - I use rsync in these situations because all moves are > atomic, all the time. > > I have a mail server farm that includes production and dev systems, and NFS > is > used to access a large ZFS file system to redistribute this stuff. > > There is ano

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Bill Landry wrote: >> >>> I have read that standards since POSIX.1-1988 onwards have imposed >>> atomicity requirements on rename (mv) that effectively require it to be >>> a system call. The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 states: >>> >>> "Thi

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Bill Landry wrote: > >> I have read that standards since POSIX.1-1988 onwards have imposed >> atomicity requirements on rename (mv) that effectively require it to be >> a system call. The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 states: >> >> "This rename() function is equi

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry wrote: > I have read that standards since POSIX.1-1988 onwards have imposed > atomicity requirements on rename (mv) that effectively require it to be > a system call. The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 states: > > "This rename() function is equivalent for regular files to tha

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Steve Basford wrote: > >> Gut feeling is that it's not a signature problem, more timing perhaps >> caused by the increase in the number of signatures being reloaded, >> and the interaction between freshclam, the RELOAD/USR2 command (used by >> scripts) and clamd. >> > >

Re: [Clamav-users] Now crash refreshing signatures, was something else

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steve Basford wrote: > Gut feeling is that it's not a signature problem, more timing perhaps > caused by the increase in the number of signatures being reloaded, > and the interaction between freshclam, the RELOAD/USR2 command (used by > scripts) and clamd. > I don't have a problem here (yet,

[Clamav-users] unlink errors when clamd stopped

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
I'm wondering why clamd first logs to the clamd.log that the Pid and Socket files were removed, then reports errors that it could not unlink the Pid and Socket files. This happens when the clamd service is stopped (service clamd stop) on Fedora 10, with ClamAV version 0.95rc1. Wed Mar 4 16:55:16

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Chris
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 19:36 +0200, Török Edwin wrote: > As far as I understand the crash occurs when reloading the signatures > (actually when freeing old signatures), > but only if clamd had some load before (i.e. it doesn't crash just by > reloading the signatures on a fresh clamd). > That makes

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: > > I've rebuilt it with my standard script so it should behave again. Sorry for > that distraction. I'll update the output of the time tests shortly. > > dp I see in my previous post I gave myself an extra ghz in cpu speed - it's a 2gig, not 3. RedHat Linux, AMD Athl

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Török Edwin wrote: > > Another thing to check is if mempool is enabled or not. It makes a 20% > speed difference here. > Try ./configure --disable-mempool to see if it is slower or not. Strange ... No changes 8-( with --disable-mempool (I said DISABLE) : # /usr/bin/time /opt/clamav/bin/clamsc

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread shuttlebox
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: >> On a Solaris10/sparc box (UltraSPARC-IIi 440Mhz) it takes 18s. > > Hmmm, a T2000 is "slightly" better than your sparc box (a 10 years old > Ultra 5 or Ultra 10 ?). But it doesn't seems too faster. Those T2000's are not that fas

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Török Edwin wrote: > On 2009-03-04 23:18, Bill Landry wrote: >> Török Edwin wrote: >> >> >>> Was your clamd heavily loaded at that time? >>> How long does this take: >>> $ time clamscan /dev/null >>> >> Sorry to break in here, but I wanted to check how long my server would >> take to load t

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Steve Basford wrote: >> Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> Sparc Solaris 9, 500Mhz >>> Known viruses: 563036 >>> Engine version: 0.95rc1 >>> >>> LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible.*** >>> Known viruses: 208929 >>> Engine version: 0.95rc1 >>> >>

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-03-04 22:54, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: > >> On 2009-03-04 21:53, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: >> > > >>> >>> >> Was your clamd heavily loaded at that time? >> > > No. This is a test server. Absolutely no load. It seemed to me tha

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-03-04 23:18, Bill Landry wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: > > >> Was your clamd heavily loaded at that time? >> How long does this take: >> $ time clamscan /dev/null >> > > Sorry to break in here, but I wanted to check how long my server would > take to load the signature databases with

Re: [Clamav-users] List bounce error

2009-03-04 Thread Luca Gibelli
Hello Török, > > This is a delivery status notification from exa.billmerriam.com, > > running the Courier mail server, version 0.54.1. > Yes, I've just received one of these. removed, Best regards -- Luca Gibelli (luca _at_ clamav.net) ClamAV, a GPL anti-virus toolkit [Tel] +39 0187 185

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Landry
Török Edwin wrote: > Was your clamd heavily loaded at that time? > How long does this take: > $ time clamscan /dev/null Sorry to break in here, but I wanted to check how long my server would take to load the signature databases with v0.95rc1. However, this is new to me: clamscan /dev/null LibCl

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Steve Basford wrote: > > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Sparc Solaris 9, 500Mhz >> Known viruses: 563036 >> Engine version: 0.95rc1 >> >> LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible.*** >> Known viruses: 208929 >> Engine version: 0.95rc1 >> > Hi Dennis, 208929 vs 563036 sig

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Steve Basford wrote: > > Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Sparc Solaris 9, 500Mhz >> Known viruses: 563036 >> Engine version: 0.95rc1 >> >> LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible.*** >> Known viruses: 208929 >> Engine version: 0.95rc1 >> > Hi Dennis, 208929 vs 563036 sig

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with Third-Party Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Steve Basford
Dennis Peterson wrote: > I understand that, but look at the title of this thread and the > misunderstanding > it implies (and spreads!). Help spread the word that it may have nothing to > do > with third-party sigs, and certainly not Sane Security in particular as the > title suggests. > W

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Steve Basford
Dennis Peterson wrote: > Sparc Solaris 9, 500Mhz > Known viruses: 563036 > Engine version: 0.95rc1 > > LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible.*** > Known viruses: 208929 > Engine version: 0.95rc1 > Hi Dennis, 208929 vs 563036 sigs? would that be the speed differ

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Török Edwin wrote: > On 2009-03-04 21:53, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: >> > > Was your clamd heavily loaded at that time? No. This is a test server. Absolutely no load. It seemed to me that it was the message which triggered the database update. top load is something like this : load

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Török Edwin wrote: > On 2009-03-04 21:53, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: >> Török Edwin wrote: >> >>> On 2009-03-04 19:44, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> >> > > Is there not a "nice" way to do this? >>> 0.95rc1 does reload "nicer", in the sense that

Re: [Clamav-users] List bounce error

2009-03-04 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-03-04 20:47, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Anyone else receiving these NDRs? > > This is a delivery status notification from exa.billmerriam.com, > running the Courier mail server, version 0.54.1. > Yes, I've just received one of these. --Edwin __

Re: [Clamav-users] Database reload times

2009-03-04 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-03-04 21:53, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: > >> On 2009-03-04 19:44, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> > > >>> Is there not a "nice" way to do this? >>> >> 0.95rc1 does reload "nicer", in the sense that it accepts new >> connection

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with xxx Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: > > So, if I understood, clamd accept connections while reloading the > database, but handle them later. > > Am I wrong ? I see the same kind of thing. I'm going to run some side-by-side tests on my Solaris systems and my RedHat Linux system to see if there'

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with xxx Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Török Edwin wrote: > On 2009-03-04 19:44, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> >> Is there not a "nice" way to do this? > > 0.95rc1 does reload "nicer", in the sense that it accepts new > connections while reloading the DB. > Reloading the database should take about a second. Using anything less > th

[Clamav-users] List bounce error

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Anyone else receiving these NDRs? This is a delivery status notification from exa.billmerriam.com, running the Courier mail server, version 0.54.1. The original message was received on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:46:08 -0500 from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Török Edwin wrote: > On 2009-03-04 19:44, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> Török Edwin wrote: >> >>> On 2009-03-04 19:28, Dennis Peterson wrote: >>> >> This can be tested by having some adventurous affected user run with only third party signatures - if it is that which is at f

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-03-04 19:44, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: > >> On 2009-03-04 19:28, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> > > >>> This can be tested by having some adventurous affected user run with only >>> third >>> party signatures - if it is that which is at fault then clamd will contin

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Török Edwin wrote: > On 2009-03-04 19:28, Dennis Peterson wrote: >> >> This can be tested by having some adventurous affected user run with only >> third >> party signatures - if it is that which is at fault then clamd will continue >> to >> crash. Since this happens only while loading signatu

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-03-04 19:28, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: > >> On 2009-03-04 17:49, Jorge Valdes wrote: >> >>> Because I run clamd via daemontools, whenever clamd crashes, its brought >>> back to life within a few seconds and things hum along fine until the >>> next crash, which is i

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Dennis Peterson
Török Edwin wrote: > On 2009-03-04 17:49, Jorge Valdes wrote: >> Because I run clamd via daemontools, whenever clamd crashes, its brought >> back to life within a few seconds and things hum along fine until the >> next crash, which is in my case, very unpredictable since I have gone >> days without

Re: [Clamav-users] DLP Data Loss Prevention module

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Gahl
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > the DLP module will currently only look for SSNs in regular text files, we > have plans for extending the detection to other formats in 0.96. Does that mean it will not scan/detect CC/SSN's in the body of the email? I've had this same problem,

Re: [Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Török Edwin
On 2009-03-04 17:49, Jorge Valdes wrote: > Because I run clamd via daemontools, whenever clamd crashes, its brought > back to life within a few seconds and things hum along fine until the > next crash, which is in my case, very unpredictable since I have gone > days without a crash, and suddenly ha

[Clamav-users] Crash with SaneSecurity Sigs

2009-03-04 Thread Jorge Valdes
I have been using clamav for a while and have been keeping up with the unresolved crashes aparently from the SaneSecurity definitions (which by the way I think are great). I stumbled upon this while checking my clamd server logwatch report: *** glibc detected *** /usr/local/sbin/clamd: free(): in

Re: [Clamav-users] DLP Data Loss Prevention module

2009-03-04 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:06:43 -0700 scuttled monkey wrote: > Hello, > > The dlp module doesn't seem to be working for me. I was wondering if anyone > is using it and has run into the same problem. When I send email with > embedded SSNs or a word document with SSNs embedded the mail the email is >

[Clamav-users] DLP Data Loss Prevention module

2009-03-04 Thread scuttled monkey
Hello, The dlp module doesn't seem to be working for me. I was wondering if anyone is using it and has run into the same problem. When I send email with embedded SSNs or a word document with SSNs embedded the mail the email is scanned and sent on its way to the receiver of the email and is not qua