Never heard of this before.  Unsure what it might be.

Kyle Hasselbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I think this problem is a fluke and may never happen again, but I wanted to
> document it anyway and see if anyone else had ideas.
>
> I noticed this because TMDA wrote a zero-length file to the pending queue,
> which inspired tmda-pending to complain when it hit it.  My daily cleanup
> does something like this:
>
> tmda-pending -O 21d -b -T | awk '{print $1}' | xargs tmda-pending -b -S
>
> The blank file produced this at the first tmda-pending:
>
> can't determine recipient address, skipping1088589374.2504.msg
>
> Then xargs complained about a mismatched single quote.
>
> I've tried to track down how that happened, and it's been pretty
> confusing.  Whatever it is, it's not consistent because the message was
> delivered on the second try, 20 minutes later.  Here's what Postfix logged:
>
> Jun 30 04:56:14 longshot postfix/local[2487]: 94C94FE13F: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> relay=local, delay=34, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: LibClamAV 
> Error: Wrote 0 instead of 512 (/tmp/clamav-ebf156e6a983b161/viruses.db). LibClamAV 
> Error: cli_cvdload(): Can't unpack CVD file. ERROR: CVD extraction failure. See 
> /home/kyle/.tmda/logs/debug-log for traceback )
>
> TMDA's debug log has only a truncated line:
>
> Uncaught Python 2.3.3 Excep
>
> I think this is related to the same problem because the debug log was last
> modified at the time of this error.
>
> My poor computer is frequently overloaded.  Anything can happen when
> software gets resource-starved, but I'd expect something to say "timeout"
> in that case.
>
> I think there's something wrong with clamAV too, but I wouldn't expect that
> to hurt TMDA.  When it finds a virus, maildrop does 'tmda-filter -I X'
> where X is a file that contains only 'to * hold'.  What can go wrong?
>
> Maybe claimAV's complaints, falling on deaf ears, bled into TMDA somehow?
>
> As I said, I think it's just a one-time problem, and I'm not worried about
> it happening a lot.  Thanks for reading.
> -- 
> Kyle Hasselbacher                Integrity is doing the right thing
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]                    when nobody is watching you.
>
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