Mailscanner warnings

Ugo Bellavance ugob at lubik.ca
Tue Feb 19 16:57:42 GMT 2008


AlxFrag wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
>> On 15/02/2008, Martin.Hepworth <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:
>>   
>>> Also
>>>
>>>  The clamd facility is only really stable at 4.62 or later and didn't exist before 4.61..
>>>
>>>     
>> Not to mention that no facility of MailScanner would ever run trhe
>> clamd _command_ ... Not whatsoever.
>>
>> What seems to have happened here is that someone has followed a
>> bothced instruction on enabling clamdscan support by futzing the
>> clamav-* wrapper scripts. This of course hasn't worked, since clamd is
>> the server part, not the client.
>> This would explain the bogus log entries on both hosts.
>>
>> What Alex should do is to follow the spirit of the wiki article
>> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_virus:clamav:switch_to_rpm_clamd
>> to get things going on the newer install (4.66.5 was it?), and upgrade
>> the other one to a version later than 4.62.something (just as you say
>> Martin), and do the same there.
>> Only other really viable option would be to run clamavmodule on the old one.
>>
>> Cheers
>>   
> Good morning,
> 
> I've followed your advice and these described in 
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_virus:clamav:switch_to_rpm_clamd. 
> I've also modified the clamav-wrapper file to its original form.
> 
> Now, no warnings are displayed. The problem is that clamscan is running 
> that needs too much CPU.
> How can i switch to clamdscan?

- make sure you're running a version of MS that supports clamd
- make appropriate changes in MailScanner.conf
- restart MailScanner

Ugo



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