Mailscanner warnings

AlxFrag alxfrag at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 08:56:16 GMT 2008


Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 19/02/2008, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>
>>     
> If the version is too old for clamd (4.62.something...?), then use clamavmodule.
>
> Cheers
>   
i've solved the problem thanks! the only thing i had to specify is Virus 
Scanners = clamd instead of Virus Scanners = clamav.


Alex
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