MailScanner broken suddenly?!?!

[Rick Cooper]

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
 > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
 > Behalf Of Gottschalk, David
 > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:00 PM
 > To: MailScanner discussion
 > Subject: RE: MailScanner broken suddenly?!?!
 > 
 > 
 > So a few things I've just learned (I think everyone else is 
 > broken that is using clamav and doesn't know it yet, that's 
 > why they aren't replying) I just happened to be working on 
 > my boxes and noticed.
 > 
 > I realized that the reason MailScanner worked temporarily is 
 > because I disabled scanning all together on the box with 
 > problems. I did this so my one broken box (at the time) 
 > could catch up since it was backed up big time.
 > 
 > Clamscan takes forever to scan messages now.
 > 
 > sudo clamscan  -v mailertable.new
 > Scanning mailertable.new
 > mailertable.new: OK
 > 
 > ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
 > Known viruses: 139329
 > Engine version: 0.90.3
 > Scanned directories: 0
 > Scanned files: 1
 > Infected files: 0
 > Data scanned: 0.00 MB
 > Time: 37.524 sec (0 m 37 s)
 > -sh-3.00$ du -sh mailertable.new
 > 12K     mailertable.new
 > 
 > All of my *.cvd directories in /usr/local/share/clamav are now gone.
 > 
 > They are all renamed to *.inc at the time of the  breakage.  
 > I think that could have been part of the problem, but I 
 > changed my config line in MailScanner, and that didn't 
 > resolve the hanging issue.
 > 
[...]

Remember the .cvd is a file and the .inc is a directory so when you
change/add a check on the .inc it should be

Path/to/db/*.inc/* and the cvd check would be Path/to/db/*.cvd

The .cvd files are unpacked the next time they are incrementally updated
after the initial download (hence the .inc)

Rick


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