MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)

[Randal, Phil]

Yes,

It sure does.

Taking forever to load the virus database is a known "feature" of ClamAV
0.90.x.

It's fixed in ClamAV 0.91RC.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Rob Poe
> Sent: 15 June 2007 07:34
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)
> 
> 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 
> 
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