Odd clam error in postfix logs

[Gareth]

Isnt clamdwatch a script to monitor clamd and restart it if it fails?

My guess is that it is being run for every mailscanner queue run and is
is scanning the eicar test file to make sure it is working and reading
its virus database correctly.


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:44, Jason Ede wrote:
> I’ve just noticed we get this logged every time an email passed
> through our system...
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> Sep 11 12:41:01 gateway2 clamd[13691]:
> /tmp/clamdwatch-DPB5RGeGkNR5sav3: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND
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> In /tmp that file doesn’t exist, so it must be something about how the
> file is linked/extracted. I’m guessing this is not expected behaviour.
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> Am on clam 0.93.3 and clamd is running
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> Jason
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