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

[Julian Field]

On 16/06/2009 14:17, Zate Berg wrote:
> Aha!  I am using freshclam, link to docs on update_virus_scanners?
It's part of MailScanner and will be installed automatically if you are 
using the RPM distributions of MailScanner. Check your /etc/cron.hourly 
directory to see if it's already there. If so, there's no point you 
running freshclam yourself, I handle all that stuff for you.
>
> 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 <mailto: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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