Mailscanner message delays / load issue

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi,


Alistair Carmichael wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for all the fast responses, a bit of further testing using 
> clamscan at the command line on very small files takes a very long time 
> and we will look at changing either to clamd or the clamavmodule. Is it 
> possible to use the clamavmodule without installing new packages other 
> than the vendors distributions / new versions the reason I ask is that 
> we manage all software packages centrally with a strict policy on what’s 
> installed. I guess that I would need to modify the virus.scanners.conf 
> and create a wrapper as the path for clamavmodule is currently /bin/conf 
> whilst all others are paths to the av wrapper file or does the 
> clamavmodule when defined in the main config get called in a different way.

Personally I wouldn't use clamavmodule, I would go for the clamd option 
provided in the latest version of MailScanner.  Should work fine with 
your package management policys.


-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
"A CAT scan should take less time than a PET scan.  For a CAT scan,
  they're only looking for one thing, whereas a PET scan could result in
  a lot of things."    - Carl Princi, 2002/07/19