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

[Martin Hepworth]

Shouldn't be using freshclam as Julian says. update_virus_scanners is in the
same directory as the MailScanner binary.

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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

2009/6/16 Zate Berg <zate75 at gmail.com>

> 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:
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>>
>>
>> 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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