Mailscanner message delays / load issue

[Randal, Phil]

One huge advantage of ClamAVModule:  no daemons to monitor and restart.

There was a time when the ClamAV users' mailing list was full of reports
of clamd dying.

And the speed problem is cured in 0.91rc2, which I'm happily running on
a production box.

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 Anthony Peacock
> Sent: 26 June 2007 11:06
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner message delays / load issue
> 
> 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/
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>   they're only looking for one thing, whereas a PET scan 
> could result in
>   a lot of things."    - Carl Princi, 2002/07/19
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