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[Eric Rosander]

OK.  Will do.

hmmmmmmmmmm.   A subject line would have been useful, eh?

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:57:42 +0100, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>



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Eric Rosander
Secure Notion
erosander at securenotion.com