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[Julian Field]

Sounds like the rav-autoupdate script needs timeouts adding to it like a
few of the other ones.
Please mail me this weekend about this and I will try to find time to fix
it for you.

At 21:25 24/09/2003, you wrote:
>MailScanner on RH 9, build 2.4.20-20.9
>mailscanner-4.23-11
>spamassassin-2.55-3
>ravlin8-8.1-4
>libclamav1-0.60-2mdk
>clamav-0.60-2mdk
>
>Every other day or so, MailScanner just hangs up.  No processing.  SendMail
>continues to receive mail, and passes it off to MailScanner and there the
>messages sit.  The culprit seems to be the rav auto-update, which hangs up,
>and in turn MailScanner hangs.  Killing the processes below resumes normal
>operation until rav tries to auto-update again.  ClamAV has no problems.
>
>I have noticed when trying to perform the RAV updates manually that it does
>not always exit their FTP server and it hangs as well. Therefore, the issue
>seems to be on the RAV end and not necessarily the AV auto-update script.
>However, MailScanner should not completely hang waiting for this process.
>Could some kind of "fail safe" be put into place that watches for this
>condition and kill the hung process automagically?
>
>
># ps -elf|grep rav
>0 S root     32319 32205  0  85   0    -   820 wait4  11:01 ?
>00:00:00 /u
>sr/bin/perl -w /usr/lib/MailScanner/rav-autoupdate /usr/local/rav8
>0 S root     32324 32319  0  85   0    -   421 schedu 11:01 ?
>00:00:00 /u
>sr/local/rav8//bin/ravav --update=engine
>0 S root      2294  2257  0  79   0    -   939 pipe_w 13:09 pts/1
>00:00:00 gr
>ep rav
>
>Otherwise, awesome product.  Can't say enough good things about it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>Eric Rosander, Owner/Principal Consultant
>Secure Notion, LLC
>erosander at securenotion.com

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