Re: [clamav-users] What is the maximum file size ClamAV supports ??

2012-09-14 Thread Todd Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Siranjeevi siranjee...@gmail.com wrote: I changed the items in clamd.conf MaxScanSize = 157286400 MaxFileSize = 104857600 But Still, the changes are not reflected in clamscan. I couldn't scan large files which is of 75MB in size. Did you mean clamdscan?

Re: [clamav-users] Exim email virus scanning

2012-01-19 Thread Todd Lyons
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:25 PM, David Kentwood david.kentw...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry i am not experienced with exim configuration. When you say reject at SMTP time, does adding the following to exim.conf suffice? check_message:  deny message = This message contains malformed MIME

Re: [clamav-users] Exim email virus scanning

2012-01-19 Thread Todd Lyons
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:09 AM, David Kentwood david.kentw...@gmail.com wrote: That's a neater solution than what I found. Thanks. Just wondering, how do you set variables such as $malware_name? or are the variables automatically set by Exim or by the ClamAV? You'll want to read through the

[Clamav-users] Large freshclam memory usage on CentOS 5.x

2010-06-12 Thread Todd Lyons
Hi all, I'm having issues with clamav 0.96.1 where freshclam running in daemon mode is growing very large. Here are the results of ps aux on some different machines: smtp1 (i386) : clamav4005 2.2 18.8 394008 390868 ? Ss Jun09 88:31 freshclam --daemon smtp2 (i386) : clamav4023

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamav not working in OS X 10.6.2 server

2010-01-28 Thread Todd Lyons
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Rob Jennings rjenni...@cape.k12.de.us wrote: I work for a school district and our new xserves have just been updated to the 10.6 server operating system. The problem I am experiencing on all 4 of these servers which are in different schools is the same. The

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd, clamav-milter: socket permissions

2010-01-07 Thread Todd Lyons
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Noah Sheppard nls...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running postfix-2.3.3 with clamav-milter-0.95.3 (and therefore clamd-0.95.3). Postfix is running as user postfix. OS is RHEL5, x86_64. When I start clamd, it creates clamd.sock like so: $ ls -l

Re: [Clamav-users] [ot?] oh no

2008-07-11 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 04:20:21PM +0200, shuttlebox wrote: X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at tad.clamav.net just found this in the headers of this mailing list :( honestly expect others to. This just means they are using clamav on their

[Clamav-users] Mirror with stale info

2008-06-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just reporting to the ClamAV team: I have repeatedly been getting failures downloading cdiffs from one particular mirror: WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-7359.cdiff from db.us.clamav.net WARNING: getfile: daily-7359.cdiff not found on remote

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter

2008-04-17 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:03:42PM -0400, Jerry Ferguson wrote: Problem: clamav-milter loads and immediately terminates You gave lots of good build information, but didn't say how you were calling the milter itself. To give you something to compare

Re: [Clamav-users] Trojan.Downloader.JS.Agent-1 jquery.js java script lib

2008-04-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:18:22PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: since yesterday update two older files on my sharedweb where marked as virus Submission-ID: 2142059 Sender: Virus Total Submission notes: Signature by Michael Cichosz Added:

Re: [Clamav-users] Can't configure ClamAV 0.92 on FC4

2008-01-09 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:14:33AM +0200, Jean Jacques Siebrits wrote: Hey all As soon as I try and run my companies custom configuration for ClamAV (After extracted) it gives me this error message and configuration stops: checking how to run the C

Re: [Clamav-users] Please help - Freshclam not updating.

2007-11-01 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:02:58AM -0600, Milton Calnek wrote: With no other options, this smells like selinux. I second that. Yah... I'm a die hard RedHat fan... but I haven't had time to explore selinux, so when I build a system, I turn it off.

Re: [Clamav-users] Please help - Freshclam not updating.

2007-10-31 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:33:17AM -0600, Milton Calnek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# host -t txt current.cvd.clamav.net current.cvd.clamav.net descriptive text 0.91.2:44:4641:1193798066:1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# host db.ca.clamav.net db.ca.clamav.net

Re: [Clamav-users] possible GPG verify problem

2007-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:50:17AM -0700, P T wrote: I downloaded clam av from the clam av site. However when I check the signature I get that basically it isn't a trusted signature. How am I doing this wrong? # to get the key gpg --keyserver

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting line numbers

2007-10-01 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:03:10PM -0500, René Berber wrote: information from ClamScan about which email contains the hit? Is there a way to have the line number of the hit spit out? Or the signature that was matched revealed?

Re: [Clamav-users] memory leak in clamd (0.91.1)?

2007-08-15 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:18:42PM -0600, Joshua Rubin wrote: Tue Aug 14 15:08:40 2007 - No stats for Database check - forcing reload Tue Aug 14 15:08:40 2007 - Reading databases from /var/share/clamav Tue Aug 14 15:09:16 2007 - Database correctly

Re: [Clamav-users] cannot resolve www.sanesecurity.co.uk

2007-07-16 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0600, Gary V wrote: Looks like I can no longer resolve (from a couple different networks): www.sanesecurity.co.uk This is from Savvis networks: sanesecurity.co.uk. 172800 IN NS ns1129.dizinc.com.

Re: [Clamav-users] CPU clamscan

2007-07-05 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:12:21AM -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote: ..there is a problem with in CPU or in clamscan ? use clamdscan instead Why continuing with this answer. Clamdscan takes 50% of the time of clamscan and that still much to slow.

Re: [Clamav-users] Build rpm of 0.90

2007-05-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:28:03PM +0200, Salvatore wrote: Hi, in my clamav.spec I have: %files %defattr(0644,root,root,0755) %doc AUTHORS BUGS COPYING ChangeLog FAQ INSTALL NEWS README TODO %doc docs/*.pdf docs/html/ test/ RPM-clamav.txt #%lang(de)

Re: [Clamav-users] Build rpm of 0.90

2007-05-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:43:59PM +0200, Salvatore wrote: ..sorry but I don't have understood, what I must modify in clamav.spec ? or pheraps I must send to ml other information about my clamav.spec ? thanks. In your first email, you pasted some

Re: [Clamav-users] Error after uograde (different?)

2007-05-29 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:01:49PM +0200, gianni sissa wrote: Hi, I'm a qmail/qmailscan/clam user. I upgraded clam (version 0.90.1) on three different servers, and in two cases I had to downgrade to te previous version due to an error:

Re: [Clamav-users] [0.90.2 clamav-milter] Temporary quarantine file ... creation failed

2007-04-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:49:35PM +0500, Sergey wrote: Can you check the application/system logs for any problems with running out of file descriptors, too many open files, or the like?? Yes, I have not found problems. messages has only 2166

Re: [Clamav-users] [0.90.2 clamav-milter] Temporary quarantine file ... creation failed

2007-04-27 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:56:10AM -0500, Dave Dumbeck wrote: I have a problem with clamav-milter. It is working short time before going to error state. Let's check your virus database to see if it's in the range of acceptability. Does your number

Re: [Clamav-users] [0.90.2 clamav-milter] Temporary quarantine file ... creation failed

2007-04-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:28:28PM +0500, Sergey wrote: Apr 26 16:50:27 mx1 sendmail[27486]: l3QBnJ1T027486: Milter add: header: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.90.2, It was working before 16:50:27, but is not working after 16:51:22 in this

Re: [Clamav-users] [0.90.2 clamav-milter] Temporary quarantine file ... creation failed

2007-04-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:15:00PM +0500, Sergey wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007, Todd Lyons wrote: Apr 26 16:51:22 mx1 clamav-milter[30280]: Temporary quarantine file /tmp/clamav-db5fe7f81e62a48f8c91bcf1d09e2d57/msg.80JZZY creation failed Show

Re: [Clamav-users] Notification when clamav milter dies?

2007-03-29 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:13:11AM +0200, Greg McCarthy wrote: Now to my question :) Does anyone have a script or know how I can monitor the clamav milter so if it ever dies again I get an email alert, or the script can even restart the milter.

Re: ClamAV not LOGGING viruses was [Clamav-users] 0.90.1 not finding viruses

2007-03-16 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:11:20PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: - And the clamav log is free of errors and indicated that the database is updated appropriately and clamd is being notified of changes. OK, clamav is finding viruses again, but they are

Re: [Clamav-users] Problem after upgrade

2007-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:51:36AM +0800, Awie wrote: Yes, seems the message was coming from Qmail-Scanner. But the Clamd consume a lot of CPU resource. I upgraded the new version for 11 servers. All servers have same configuration (setting) and but

[Clamav-users] Phishing, my webserver hacked

2007-01-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, who's the guy who maintains the phishing sigs? They hacked my webserver and sent out spams with a url that pointed to my webserver. If you want the URL, email me offlist and I'll give it to you (want to keep it out of the ML archives). - --

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Chronic MD5 Verification Errors

2007-01-17 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 08:49:14AM -0500, Edward Dam wrote: Thanks again for all your help. Maybe once clamAV matures, it will be a better fit for my needs, but until then I need to remove it, as it's the cause of my headaches. I would disagree on

Re: [Clamav-users] Should I submit...

2007-01-17 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:34:01AM +0100, Sander Holthaus wrote: a very basic perl script which opens a listening socket and a shell? I found it after a hacker tried to gain entry. The script is nothing special (far from, 612 bytes) but I doubt

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Chronic MD5 Verification Errors

2007-01-17 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:54:53AM -0500, Edward Dam wrote: Tue Jan 16 22:40:09 2007 - SelfCheck: Database status OK. Reloading anyway. Tue Jan 16 22:40:09 2007 - Reading databases from /var/clamav Tue Jan 16 22:40:09 2007 -

Re: [Clamav-users] Clamd 0.88.7 dies on new main.cvd (version 42)

2007-01-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:41:21AM -0500, Ben Wilson wrote: LibClamAV Error: Cannot close file /tmp/clamav-29cad58e042679e3/main.fp. cli_untgz: No space left on device LibClamAV Error: cli_cvdload(): Can't unpack CVD file. LibClamAV Error: Can't load

Re: [Clamav-users] How to run clamscan for a list of files from a file?

2006-11-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:55:44PM -0300, René Bellora wrote: this could be circumvented with xargs: cd /tmp/clamscan find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 clamscan If clamscan is complaining about a too long commandline with *, then this will give him

Re: [Clamav-users] How to run clamscan for a list of files from a file?

2006-11-28 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:27:57PM -0300, René Bellora wrote: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 clamscan If clamscan is complaining about a too long commandline with *, then this will give him the same error. no, it won't. The xargs command knows the

Re: [Clamav-users] Problem updating clam engine

2006-11-17 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:04:46PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When attempting the rpm -Uvh command using both rpm packages together (i.e. clamav and clamav-db) I get dependencies back to the previous packages. You have to upgrade all three

Re: [Clamav-users] GMP problem

2006-09-20 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:04:41PM +0200, Jona Tallieu (T T NV) wrote: configure: WARNING: ** GNU MP 2 or newer NOT FOUND - digital signature support will be disabled ! I tried re-installing GMP, but still get the error. Anyone any idea what

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:57:25AM +0300, nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 = 5):

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly

Re: [Clamav-users] Recomended nightly snap, or beta version ?

2006-08-31 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:13:21AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: It tries to run: It should be running: -AC_CHECK_HEADER(resolv.h,[FRESHCLAM_LIBS=$FRESHCLAM_LIBS $resolv_lib; AC_DEFINE(HAVE_RESOLV_H,1,have resolv.h)], AC_MSG_WARN([** DNS

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Milter Woes...

2006-08-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:31:44PM -0700, .rp wrote: INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav',`S=unix:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock, F=T, T=S:4m;R:4m')dnl You use clamav as the milter? Is this better than using clamav-milter as the milter? It's just a name.

Re: [Clamav-users] Recomended nightly snap, or beta version ?

2006-08-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:32:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh well - i for one am too stupid to work with cvs code: __cut__ clamav-milter.o(.text+0x81f1): In function `main': : undefined reference to `__res_query'

Re: [Clamav-users] Recomended nightly snap, or beta version ?

2006-08-30 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:22:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw: ./configure make is working here, too; the --enable-milter part is giving me difficulties... Yeah, I got the error too. I poked at it for a bit, but I didn't get any further

Re: [Clamav-users] clamd quit logging

2006-08-04 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:09:25PM -0500, Chris wrote: I was looking at my clamav stats file and noticed that it kept giving me the same amount of virus's detected as of 1 Aug. Looking at my /var/log/clamav/clamd.log I noticed that it quit logging

Re: [Clamav-users] Warning while update

2006-05-24 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:33:31AM +0200, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote: I’m quite worried about that because in FAQ tells if it happens only once to ignore it but when it happens often… what should I do? I use my isp dns servers so no dns caching or

Re: [Clamav-users] Version mismatches on supposedly up-to-date system

2006-04-17 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 07:20:28PM -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: You need to uninstall all the packages and build from source. And before Before I begin, let me first say that if the guy is proficient and comfortable

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: clamav-milter: stale files in quarantine directory and open file descriptors

2006-03-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:06:05PM +0200, Panagiotis Christias wrote: we tried to run clamav-milter without the quarantine option: clamav-milter -enNqd -m 150 -U /var/tmp/clamav Now some of the messages that exceed the StreamMaxLength linger

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: clamav-milter: stale files in quarantine directory and open file descriptors

2006-03-21 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:25:11AM +0200, Panagiotis Christias wrote: we tried to run clamav-milter without the quarantine option: clamav-milter -enNqd -m 150 -U /var/tmp/clamav Now some of the messages that exceed the StreamMaxLength linger

Re: [Clamav-users] Some Help on initial configuring clamd.conf

2006-03-13 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:53:21PM +0100, MP wrote: ok, that's fine, so when I need to scan a directory, I'll use clamdscan in the future. Point to note: the clamd daemon by default changes user when it starts from root down to a regular user,

Re: [Clamav-users] DNS record older than 3 hours - happening since yesterday?

2006-02-08 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:35:01PM +, Brian Morrison wrote: Dig doesn't seem to have any trouble getting a record, date/time on my server is correct. % dig current.cvd.clamav.net txt ;; ANSWER SECTION: current.cvd.clamav.net. 592 IN

Re: [Clamav-users] Unofficial Phishing Signatures

2006-01-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:49:03PM +, Steve Basford wrote: Note 2: Use the unofficial phish.ndb at your own risk. Any reason to call it phish.ndb instead of phish.db? Just a way to make automating it easier? - -- Regards... Todd

Re: [Clamav-users] Unofficial Phishing Signatures

2006-01-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:40:37PM +, Steve Basford wrote: If you look at Section 3.3 (Basic Signature format) you'll see that these databases are .db format, which doesn't have a html type, it looks for matches in ALL file types, which I

Re: [Clamav-users] Out of memory, cannot allocate memory

2006-01-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:12:44PM +, Nigel Horne wrote: Dec 7 11:54:46 lionhead sendmail[13045]: jB7Askgv013045: SYSERR(root): out of memory: Cannot allocate memory ClamAv is configured in sendmail.mc as: INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clamav',

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: ClamAV and Redhat 8.0

2005-12-13 Thread Todd Lyons
G.W. Haywood wanted us to know: And you're not nervous about running a Linux distro that old? That would make *me* very nervous. Do _everyone_ a favour and install a more recent distro. Old distros are ok under controlled circumstances. 1) Firewall all listening ports to the Internet except the

Re: [Clamav-users] what is the default port that clamav (clamd) runs on

2005-11-28 Thread Todd Lyons
Grant Basson wanted us to know: Should you ever come back to visit this list you'll learn that everything you need to know about this can be found in your clamd.conf file. That leaves for you the challenge of finding that clamd.conf file. I feel like a twit, but here goes anyway. How the heck do

Re: [Clamav-users] clam producing large temp files

2005-11-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Shaun Bügler - Hetzner wanted us to know: Any suggestions besides fix the php code ? Run it manually and do an lsof on it to see what files it has open. Run it manually and do an strace on it to see what the heck it's doing. Run it manually and do whatever you gotta do to figure out where this

Re: [Clamav-users] cvd timestamps question

2005-10-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Joanna Roman wanted us to know: I believe timestamps are stored internally in seconds-since-the-epoch. So whatever your ls -l command says in your time zone, that's the correct time. No, I believe you are incorrect. I am talking about the timestamp stored in each main.cvd and daily.cvd's

Re: [Clamav-users] freshclam

2005-10-12 Thread Todd Lyons
Daniel Mons wanted us to know: In Debian at a command prompt: /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam start In Gentoo at a command prompt: /etc/init.d/clamd start ...etc. From memory, Fedora puts these sorts of things in /etc/rc.d/init.d or something like that. We can actually standardize a bit here

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter: /var/log/clamav/clamd.log: Permission denied

2005-10-06 Thread Todd Lyons
Sergey wanted us to know: Hello. Why subj ? should the clamav-milter write to clamd.log ? Normally you would write to its own log file. Make it log to /var/log/clamav/clamav-milter.log and your permission problem should go away. -- Regards... Todd OS X: We've been fighting the

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter seems unstable with 0.87

2005-09-26 Thread Todd Lyons
Mark wanted us to know: ... The result is processes that hang forever on our system. We have a cronjob that does a killall -HUP sendmail every 2 hours. that clears out those hanging processes. That seems a bit crude. :) I wrote a cronjob like that, in Perl; but, based on 'ps' output, it only

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter seems unstable with 0.87

2005-09-23 Thread Todd Lyons
R. Steven Rainwater wanted us to know: Thanks Todd, this was the first thing I've tried that helped. Prior to 0.87, we were running max children at 25 and never had problems. I bumped it up to 40 now and that seems to have helped somewhat. We're still getting a couple of the error messages in the

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter seems unstable with 0.87

2005-09-22 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: R. Steven Rainwater wrote: Update. I tried changing -T=0 to --timeout=0 as one person suggested but it had no effect. For the moment, I've added a chron job that restarts clamav-milter hourly, which is at least keeping the mail flowing for now. If I can't

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter seems unstable with 0.87

2005-09-22 Thread Todd Lyons
R. Steven Rainwater wanted us to know: Have you tried running clamd and using --external on clamav-milter? Just tried it. Already had two more crashes in less than 10 minutes! :-( Both were of the write(A) return -1, expected 5: Broken pipe variety, if that means anything. Pick up the max

Re: [Clamav-users] How to check since when particular worm is detected?

2005-09-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Michal Kochanowicz wanted us to know: A user forwarded an email with worm to me. This email passed our clamav on 2005.09.20 22:10:41 CEST. When I checked forwarded email with clamscan around 2005.09.21 10:00:00 CEST it correctly detected Worm.Bagle.Gen-5. Between an original email and my test

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Restarting Freshclam

2005-08-22 Thread Todd Lyons
Chris wanted us to know: ${LOGFILE}, and running service freshclam start from the cli resulted in the process starting Starting Clam AntiVirus Update Daemon: but the 'ok' was not given. My guess is because of the sleep variable. Tried after the Try restart. If it was already running, then

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: RELOAD/VERSION issues

2005-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
Brian Morrison wanted us to know: And it would be nice to obtain the currently loaded database from the daemon without having to parse the log files. clamscan -V That's not what he's asking. That only tells you what version of the database clamscan finds and loads when you run it. That

Re: [Clamav-users] RELOAD/VERSION issues

2005-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Gran wanted us to know: However, the VERSION command and clamdscan -V report the new database version immediately after putting the new databases in place. Both do indeed scan the on disk databases for version information. Verified here

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter logging habbits

2005-06-30 Thread Todd Lyons
Nigel Horne wanted us to know: This is a feature request. The first line in the log carries a lot of useful information, almost everything. Would it be possible to also include the sender's IP address? It would save us a few lines of scripting when analyzing the logs. Given the number of

Re: [Clamav-users] What does this message mean?

2005-06-16 Thread Todd Lyons
Ken Goods wanted us to know: Niek wrote: On 6/16/2005 8:04 PM +0200, Ken Goods wrote: So you're saying these are MailScanner generated messages? That should tell you enough, or did you pay for clamav ? Niek Baakman ___

Re: [Clamav-users] clamdscan vs clamscan - detection

2005-05-31 Thread Todd Lyons
Odhiambo Washington wanted us to know: Please, set the Debug flag in your clamd.conf, rescan the sample, and send us the logs. I cannot do that on the box where this phenomena is manifesting itself because it's a production box, processing large volumes of mail. I'll Very quickly, do these:

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: javascript virus

2005-05-31 Thread Todd Lyons
Jim Popovitch wanted us to know: should be doing for the masses. I'll shutup now since it is all too apparent that ppl think I came here to get individual assistance in solving a problem rather than to identify a potential oversight in clamav. Don't take it personally until an actual developer

Re: [Clamav-users] clamdscan vs clamscan - detection

2005-05-31 Thread Todd Lyons
Odhiambo Washington wanted us to know: Someone said I have disabled ScanPE, which is correct. It's apparent that this was a major factor. It also appears that restarting clamd was necessary. I however don't understand why it should be, since freshclam does notify it... Notify it of a new

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav hung taking up 100% of CPU

2005-05-27 Thread Todd Lyons
Damian Menscher wanted us to know: On Fri, 27 May 2005, lattera wrote: can't use strace, because I don't know the email that is making it hang. that is why I need to use gdb, so I can look through the stack/heap for the email... You're saying it's hung, taking 100% of CPU. So just use top to

Re: [Clamav-users] don't del clmilter.sock

2005-05-26 Thread Todd Lyons
haplopelma lividum wanted us to know: my system is rh7.3 clamd + clamav-milter v.0.85.1 and i have a little problem. when i execute service clamav-milter stop system is answering ok, but don't delete clmilter.sock. so when i execute service clamav-milter start system get error. what

Re: [Clamav-users] don't del clmilter.sock

2005-05-25 Thread Todd Lyons
haplopelma lividum wanted us to know: my system is rh7.3 clamd + clamav-milter v.0.85.1 and i have a little problem. when i execute service clamav-milter stop system is answering ok, but don't delete clmilter.sock. so when i execute service clamav-milter start system get error. what

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Clamav upgrade

2005-05-25 Thread Todd Lyons
Souza Simbota wanted us to know: checking for curl = 7.10.0... FAILED configure: WARNING: curl-config was not found Install curl-devel checking for mi_stop in -lmilter... no checking for library containing strlcpy... no checking for mi_stop in -lmilter... no configure: error: Cannot find

[Clamav-users] clamav-milter logfile permission error

2005-05-24 Thread Todd Lyons
Installing clamav-0.85.1 (custom rpms) onto a CentOS 4.0 box. I'm modeling the configs after our production systems which are Gentoo boxen and running fine. When I try to start the milter, I get an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# clamav-milter --max-children=100 --quiet --force-scan

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter logfile permission error

2005-05-24 Thread Todd Lyons
Matt Fretwell wanted us to know: clamav-milter: (-q !LogSyslog): warning - all interception message methods are off /var/log/clamav/clamav.log: Permission denied Well, duh. The clamd daemon has that file open, so clamav-milter can't open it. Can someone tell me how to tell the

Re: [Clamav-users] Maybe a virus Sober.P

2005-05-05 Thread Todd Lyons
Matt Fretwell wanted us to know: as it is harder to scan those messages for viruses Nonsense. Mail is mail. If you are running a mailserver, it should be able to cope with all types of mail, irrelevant of (creation|submission) method. Nonsense. A user clicks on a webmail message, opens the

Re: [Clamav-users] Load averages going too high when doing a full clamscan

2005-04-28 Thread Todd Lyons
Chris de Vidal wanted us to know: Is our situation that foreign? I was half expecting someone to tell me We have a 5TB FTP server and can scan it all under 40 minutes with .25 extra load average! You just have to do this... Most people with stuff that large have a three teir system: 1) AV

Re: [Clamav-users] clamscan and CPU usage

2005-04-18 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: Hello Please, we have seen this in one of our servers: qscand 20687 13.4 0.0 19528 936 ?RApr13 389:37 /usr/local/clamav/bin/clamscan --verbose --debug /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp/servername111342211948731875 Turn off --debug. Any one have seen

Re: [Clamav-users] Report Phishing attacks?

2005-03-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Julian Mehnle wanted us to know: | To those of you who argue that ClamAV should detect phishing attacks | even though tools like SpamAssassin are designed and inherently better Perhaps marketing speak would better suit you. McAffee detects phishing emails. What better way to give *ALL* AV

Re: [Clamav-users] use of clamav-milter

2005-03-17 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: Dennis Peterson wrote: It is frequently most efficient to test for spam content prior to scanning for viruses - there is no point in virus scanning a file if it has failed a spam content test. That's more than you asked but not bad to know. The reverse is

Re: [Clamav-users] use of clamav-milter

2005-03-17 Thread Todd Lyons
Dennis Peterson wanted us to know: Of the two processes (spam scanning and virus scanning), spam scanning is more resource-intensive (at least the way I do it) - so I virus scan first, and spam-scan second. Interesting - that is exactly the opposite of my experiences so I'm interested in

Re: [Clamav-users] use of clamav-milter

2005-03-17 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: When a milter is configured to reject at the SMTP level, it never gets to the second milter in the chain. So if clamav-milter detects a virus, the CPU intensive content scanning process never sees the message (hence much lower load). Your site policies

Re: [Clamav-users] Latest virusdb update - mismatched signature count?

2005-03-17 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: Yes, it will (already supported in CVS). this is ridiculous. my clamd system is now broken due to these changes that are being propogated. i'm running the current .83 release. you should at S60clamd start LibClamAV Error: Wrote 0 instead of 512

Re: [Clamav-users] timeout before data read

2005-03-16 Thread Todd Lyons
Junior wanted us to know: /usr/local/sbin/clamav-milter -dlDo --max-children=2 Try setting --max-children to something like 20 or 40. -- Regards... Todd We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy. Where it is

Re: [Clamav-users] How to rotate the log file of clamav

2005-03-10 Thread Todd Lyons
ladha wanted us to know: My /etc/logrotate.conf is : snip logrotate also supports the /etc/logrotate.d/* files for packages to easily add/remove logrotate support for their logrotations needed. Here's how I do mine: smtp1 root # cat /etc/logrotate.d/clamav /etc/logrotate.d/freshclam

Re: [Clamav-users] Re: Two persistent problems with clamav

2005-03-09 Thread Todd Lyons
René Berber wanted us to know: I agree with this, the log shows two different processes running, both as daemon. Could the start script run freshclam twice? No, when he upgraded from 0.81 to 0.83, it looks like the old process was never killed. It happily kept running. -- Regards...

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV 0.83 - Stream scanning timeout

2005-03-07 Thread Todd Lyons
Mark wanted us to know: Yesterday, I subjected ClamAV to a very rigorous, final stress test. I let it scan roughly 20,000 news spool files, and opened an individual connection for each file (not very efficient, of course, but good to get massive concurrency; especially since I ran 5 simultaneous

Re: [Clamav-users] ClamAV Install

2005-01-21 Thread Todd Lyons
Mal Herring wanted us to know: Hello ClamAV-Users, I am running Clam on a Gentoo box, However the latest version is not yet in Portage... Does anyone know how much of a mission it would be to un-merge my current .80 version and install the latest from source ? emerge --unmerge clamav tar -zxvf

Re: [Clamav-users] Writing a clamd client library

2005-01-18 Thread Todd Lyons
Phil Endecott wanted us to know: IMO, blacklists are crap, don't use them. There are better ways to avoid spam. Those of us in operational contexts who block 60%+ of inbound mail for being spam would beg to differ with you. Known spam supporting operations should be spanked for allowing

Re: [Clamav-users] Getting ClamAV to transparently scan all outgoing port 25 connections?

2005-01-04 Thread Todd Lyons
Jay Lee wanted us to know: Tinus Nijmeijers said: any traffic coming into the internal interface on port 25 where src!=mailserver gets redirected to the mailserver. Your external interface does come into the picture. Yes, and in order for my mail server to accept the mail from [EMAIL

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems with clamdscan

2004-12-19 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: I am running Qmail+Qmail-Scanner+ClamAV on a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and followed the qmailrocks.org directions to the tee. When running Unless it's been fixed recently, that howto tells you to have clamdscan symlinked to clamscan. That's a very inefficient

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav-milter doesn't handle large virus mails

2004-12-16 Thread Todd Lyons
R Jansen wanted us to know: I'm beginning to think that's the problem. It's a PIII 450 MHz machine with 384MB RAM. Like said the avarage rate was about 50 infected mails a day. Really easy fix here for resource shortages, add another 256 or 512 Megs of RAM. But now the bsmtp server of the ISP

Re: [Clamav-users] /root/clamav-0.80: Access denied. ERROR while testing clamav

2004-12-06 Thread Todd Lyons
Brian Morrison wanted us to know: If you do ls -l in /tmp you'll be able to see the socket if it exists. And check the permissions on /tmp from /, it needs to be 666 I think. Most people use mode 1777 for /tmp directory. -- Regards... Todd OS X: We've been fighting the It's a mac

Re: [Clamav-users] OpenBSD 3.6 (and others?) build problem

2004-12-06 Thread Todd Lyons
ed wanted us to know: Can you state what you did in both cases, I had to modify the headers to get past curl include.. but that didn't get me a build. There are some environment variable that you can set to specify arguments to gcc, such as additional include paths and additional library paths.

Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Re: This is how I use ClamAV

2004-12-03 Thread Todd Lyons
Jan Pieter Cornet wanted us to know: What I find really odd is your complete lack of Worm.Sober-I. Our stats for Thu Dec 2: Good point. I had totally missed that too. Top-5: W32/Sober-I : 1078544 W32/Netsky-P: 57920 That's a pretty big difference, seems more like an internal

Re: [Clamav-users] uninstalling issues

2004-11-29 Thread Todd Lyons
David Green wanted us to know: Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet Maybe it's setup in a user crontab: su - pop3 crontab -l -- Regards... Todd We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be

Re: [Clamav-users] Problems with Netsky and Beagle virus. We installed the clamAV mailter with sendmail

2004-11-24 Thread Todd Lyons
Ing. Mónico Briseño C. wanted us to know: Add the following line with the command Cron 43 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * root /root/updateclam You can change the long list to */2 and get the same thing. Fourth step Re start the sendmail service and taste the clamAV with the Netsky virus.

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