MailScanner problem

[DAve]

Gottschalk, David wrote:
> Yes, I'm in EST.
>  
> I just found the problem myself too.
>  
> It happened on one of my only boxes first because it updated before the 
> others. Then all of the others went down too.
>  
> I resolved it by removing clamav from the "Virus Scanners" option in 
> MailScanner.conf. Luckly, I use two virus scanners. If you only use one, 
> just disable it entirely temporarily.
>  
> David Gottschalk
> david.gottschalk at emory.edu <mailto:david.gottschalk at emory.edu>
>  
> 
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> *From:* Bryan Guest [mailto:bryan.guest at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, July 20, 2007 2:21 PM
> *To:* david.gottschalk at emory.edu
> *Subject:* re: MailScanner problem
> 
> Hello:
> 
> Are you in EST (gmt -05:00)? If so, the same thing happened to me at 
> nearly the same time.
> 
> It looks like a botched CLAMAV update that has hosed Mailscanner 
> somehow.  All my MailScanner processes hang at: starting children.  
> Oddly it seems to only have happened to one machine.
> 
> Let me know if you have any ideas.  I am going to try to completely blow 
> away the clamav database directory and start over there.
> 
> Bryan Guest

Hmmm, we are not running the new version of ClamAV yet except in 
testing. So far I am considering that a wise decision on my part. Just 
when I think issues in the new ClamAV are resolved, someone else gets a 
bloody nose.

version 88.x is still catching everything and is stable as a rock, and 
my pager is silent. Looks like we will sit out another update, or three, 
before we take the plunge.

DAve

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