Clamav Ping Timeout During Update

[Neal Morgan]

Greetings:

My Mailscanner has been reporting timeouts when clamav updates its
database.  I see entries like this in syslog:

2008-03-03 08:41:10.000	Server-05	MailScanner[20773]:
Clamd::ERROR:: CLAM PING TIMED OUT! :: .


If I review the clamav log, it seems that the timeout always occurs
within several seconds of the "database reloaded" entry:

Mon Mar  3 08:30:21 2008 -> SelfCheck: Database modification detected.
Forcing reload.
Mon Mar  3 08:30:21 2008 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
Mon Mar  3 08:41:09 2008 -> Database correctly reloaded (223704
signatures)


I wouldn't care too much about this, except any messages passing through
MailScanner during that same several second period get marked as virus
infected with "Denial of Service" as the virus report.

I am running Mailscanner on 5 servers, all Debian etch, all using the
package maintainer's clamav and all using MailScanner-4.66.5-3 built
from source.  All 5 are experiencing the same issue.

Any suggestions?



Best Regards,

Neal Morgan