ClamAV Module Core Dump

Zivago Lee z at ziff.net
Tue May 1 23:01:42 IST 2007


> Drew Marshall spake the following on 5/1/2007 1:56 PM:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Ok another challenge that I hope you can help with. I am running a
>> FreeBSD 6 box that I have just upgraded to ClamAV 0.90.2 which was
>> upgraded from the ports tree. Knowing there can be issues, I also forced
>> an update (Which in effect recompiles) of the Clam perl module.
>> Restarted MailScanner and ever since MS core dumps. I can run MS using
>> ClamAV only but it makes quite a performance hit so I want to get t
>> reinstalled ASAP.
>>
>> Running in debug mode, I helpfully get:
>>
>> root at mx1 /usr/local/etc/MailScanner # mailscanner --debug
>> In Debugging mode, not forking...
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> /var/log/messages gets:
>>
>> May  1 20:34:14 mx1 kernel: pid 43095 (perl5.8.8), uid 0: exited on
>> signal 11 (core dumped)
>>
>> Again no clues that I can see. Can any one give me some ideas where to
>> start with this?
> I have a similar issue in Centos 4. While I am not getting cores,
> MailScanner
> will not run with the 0.20 module and 0.90.2 on one of my servers. It runs
> fine with the commandline scanner, and I haven't had the time to upgrade
> to
> the new version of MailScanner to test the clamd functionality. I get
> nothing
> in debug, either.

Wow.. I thought it was just my server and/or config on why the
clamavmodule was not working.  It would just keep restarting the
MailScanner processes and -debug would not display any issues.  clamd
works just fine, however, and works really well!

-- 
Zivago Lee
z at ziff.net


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