MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)

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Why not use clamd direct ?
Rob Poe wrote:
>>>> "Randal, Phil" <prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk> 06/15/07 6:06 AM >>>
>>>>         
> OK, on my test (completely unloaded) CentOS 5 box MailScanner starts all
> its children thus (to nearest 10 seconds, I hate excessive precision):
>
>   without clamavmodule:  40 seconds
>
>   with clamavmodule:    190 seconds
>
> 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 Randal, Phil
>> Sent: 15 June 2007 07:59
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: RE: MailScanner / Clam .. (grrrr)
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> 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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