Problem with Mailscanner marking everything as a virus after ClamAV fails update.

[Zate Berg]

Aha!  I am using freshclam, link to docs on update_virus_scanners?

When freshclam fails, things go bad, so I guess that is my issue.

Zate


On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

>
>
> On 16/06/2009 13:42, Zate Berg wrote:
>
>> This has happened multiple times.
>>
>> ClamAV freshclam fails for what ever reason (usually the mirror(s) are
>> down, i use the US mirrors), when this happens, ClamD "hangs" and
>> MailScanner or ClamD identifies the messages sent to ClamD as a Dos and
>> marks them all as a Virus in MailScanner.
>>
> MailScanner should lock out the ClamAV virus scanner while it is being
> updated if you are using my update_virus_scanners program every hour to do
> the update. If you are calling freshclam yourself somehow, then I can't help
> you.
>
>> so, how do I tell MailScanner to NOT quarantine these  "DoS" messages, or
>> in fact to just skip scanning and alert me... i really need this to fail
>> open rather than fail closed and mark everything as a virus.
>>
> How are you doing the updates?
>
> Jules
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