MS hangs with strange clamav database

[Glenn Steen]

On 07/04/2008, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/04/2008, Ronny T. Lampert <telecaadmin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >  Usually the clamav database looks like this:
>  >
>  >  #> ls -l /var/clamav/
>  >  total 13152
>  >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav   396261 Apr  7 12:39 daily.cvd
>  >  -rw-r--r--  1 clamav clamav 13050207 Apr  7 12:39 main.cvd
>  >  -rw-------  1 clamav clamav       52 Apr  7 12:40 mirrors.dat
>  >
>  >
>  >  But sometimes the daily.cvd and main.cvd get strangely converted to
>  >  subdirectories with around 10 files in them - that's when MS starts to
>  >  hang and not process any mail at all.
>  >
>  >  Error is:
>  >
>  >  Apr  7 12:34:10 SERVER MailScanner[24956]: None of the files matched by
>  >  the "Monitors For ClamAV Updates" patterns exist!
>  >
>  >  ... which of course is true because of my setting
>  >
>  >  Monitors for ClamAV Updates = /var/clamav/*.cvd
>
> So you are using ClamAVModule... Then that one is wrong, and has been
>  for quite some time now. If you search the archives you'll see that it
>  need look something like:
>
>  Monitors for ClamAV Updates = /var/clamav/*.inc/* /var/clamav/*.?db
>  /var/clamav/*.cvd

Beware line wrapping... the above is (of course:-) meant to be on one line.

Cheers
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