Mail Fail to deliver after ClamAV definition Update today

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 12:17:17 GMT 2010


Terrance

have you tried clearing the defs restarting the update?

also worth moving to the clamd method, it's faster to scan, startup the
children and the children are smaller as they don't need the virus defs
locally.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 15 November 2010 12:02, Terence Chan <terence.km.chan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi After an update of the definition on ClamAV 2AM GMT, all email on my
> mail server failed to deliver.
>
> An error message shows up like this.
>
> Nov 15 01:20:06 mail01a MailScanner[14801]: None of the files matched by
> the "Monitors For ClamAV Updates" patterns exist!
>
> When I restart MailScanner - the MailScanner process die repeatedly. (See
> the defunct MailScanner)
>
> 30589 ?        Ss     0:00 MailScanner: starting child
> 30594 ?        S      0:00 MailWatch SQL
> 30610 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep MailScanner
> 30623 ?        Z      0:04 [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 30629 ?        Z      0:04 [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 30642 ?        Z      0:04 [MailScanner] <defunct>
> 30656 ?        R      0:04 MailScanner: starting child
> 30670 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: starting child
>
>
> I have to disable virus scanning before I can restart MaiLScanner and email
> starts to deliver again.
>
> I am running ClamAV 0.96 and using the clamavmodule to activate the ClamAV.
> This setup has been running for over a year and not giving us any problem.
>
> Please advise how we can check what goes wrong.
>
> Thanks!
> -=Terence=-
>
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