Mail-ClamAv / ClamAv

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, shuttlebox wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:18:40 +0100
> From: shuttlebox <shuttlebox at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: Mail-ClamAv / ClamAv
> 
> On Dec 20, 2007 2:55 PM, Stephen Swaney <steve at fsl.com> wrote:
>> The only drawback might be what happens when clamd dies and I've seen
>> this happen. Do you run a keepalive wrapper on clamd?
>
> I don't have to do that since Solaris Service Management Facility
> takes care of keeping enabled services running. On other OS:es a very
> simple script run from cron every few minutes takes care of that, lots
> of things needs to be running on a server so this is nothing new,
> there's plenty of utilities to do this as well.
>
> It also seems the unstable days of clamd are over, I haven't had a
> restart yet. :-)

Also no porblems with clamd for me (Solaris 10, using an /etc/init.d
script).

Jeff Earickson
Colby College