MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)

[Rob Poe]

Well, I've finally figured out on the boxes that the Mail::ClamAV won't install with CPAN -- how to get them to install via RPM (not exactly a fun time figuring that out) .. the DAG repo for Centos is where I got everything (they have the perl-mail-clamav module, the perl-inline-perl, and obviously the clamav).

now, however, when MailScanner is starting, it takes a LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNG time to get the children to start.  

(on the order of 5 minutes)

the MailScanner --lint isn't that slow though..

output from top looks something like ...


16477 root      25   0 65128  63M  3688 R    20.6  2.5   0:17   0 MailScanner
16498 root      25   0 64908  63M  3684 R    19.6  2.5   0:13   0 MailScanner
16503 root      25   0 64684  63M  3684 R    19.6  2.5   0:10   0 MailScanner
16506 root      25   0 63748  62M  3684 R    19.6  2.4   0:08   0 MailScanner
16510 root      25   0 60668  59M  3680 R    19.6  2.3   0:07   0 MailScanner

But once it's started, it works a treat

Jun 15 01:32:03 mail MailScanner[16477]: ClamAVModule::INFECTED:: Eicar-Test-Signature:: ./l5F6T5xE016496/msg-16477-1.txt