RE: [Clamav-users] freshclam - ERROR: Can't lock database directory: -stale .dbLock file

2007-02-22 Thread Wolf, Brian
Paul Griffith wrote: Has anyone encountered the following problem: Somehow there was a stale .dbLock file in the database directory, and the log file was full of 'ERROR: Can't lock database directory: /cs/local/share/clamav' I did a strace and saw the freashclam was trying to create a new

RE: [Clamav-users] freshclam - ERROR: Can't lock database directory:-stale .dbLock file

2007-02-22 Thread Wolf, Brian
I haven't seen a stale .dbLock file, but both freshclam and clamd 0.90 have been dying with Can't lock database directory every time a new version of signatures comes out. This is on a RedHat Advanced Server 4 system. I have pasted portions of the logs below. Freshclam runs as a

RE: [Clamav-users] freshclam - ERROR: Can't lock database directory:-stale .dbLock file

2007-02-26 Thread Wolf, Brian
Brian wrote: both freshclam and clamd 0.90 have been dying with Can't lock database directory every time a new version of signatures comes out. It looks like my problem was caused by having freshclam run a script after an update using the OnUpdateExecute line in freshclam.conf. The