ClamAV or ClamD?

[Denis Beauchemin]

Jan Agermose a écrit :
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> hi
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> I just started using clamd - what problems are there since you are 
> writing "to check its alive"? Is there are script to this by the way 
> if its a general problem?`
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Jan,

Until I started using the fetch-sanesecurity-sigs script I had no 
failure of clamd but now my script that checks if clamd is alive has 
restarted it on many MS servers.  I don't really understand what makes 
it die because when I do the "kill -USR2 pid" by hand everything works 
just fine...

Basically, the script makes sure there is a clamd process running (by 
looking at the PID written in /var/.../clamd.pid) and restarts it if 
there is none.  I run this script in root's crontab every minute.  Very 
small overhead.

I know there are numerous free monitoring solutions on the net but I 
prefer my own ;)

Denis

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