Hello,
thanks for the advice!
I've upgraded now and will take a closer look at monit, looks like a
very handy tool!
- Markus
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:05PM +0000, Calum Mackay wrote :
> Markus Fischer wrote:
> > I'm facing exactly this problem since a few days. Every 4 to six
> > hours clamav suddenly dies away (in mainlog: timeout error) and that
> > was it. I need to manually kill all clamd processes and restart it.
> > I'm not very happy with it.
> >
> > Strange however, this exacrly not-touched-since-months setup worked
> > before. I'm using debian testing and updating on a regular basis,
> > however I haven't see clamav or exim updates for a while.
> >
> > I'm lost currently. Disabled clamav is too high a security risk
> > however ... I don't know what I shold do :|
>
> You could try taking the latest clam from unstable, which has the 0.67
> tree - supposed to be much more stable.
>
> I'm running it here, and it works well.
>
> also consider monit to monitor, and restart, exim/clam. My /etc/monitrc
> appended.
>
> cheers,
> c.
>
>
> # Global set-statements
> set init
> #
> set alert monit@??? mail-format { from: monit@??? }
> set daemon 180
> set httpd port 2812
> address localhost
> allow localhost
> allow root:XXXXX
> allow crypt /etc/monit/monit.passwd
> set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
>
> # exim mail daemon
> check process exim4
> pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid
> group mail
> start program = "/etc/init.d/exim4 start"
> stop program = "/etc/init.d/exim4 stop"
> if failed port 25 proto smtp then restart
> if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
> depends on clamd
>
> # ClamAV virus checking daemon - vital for exim
> check process clamd
> pidfile /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid
> group virus
> start program = "/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start"
> stop program = "/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon stop"
> if failed unix /var/run/clamd.ctl send "PING\nQUIT\n" expect
> "PONG\n"
> timeout 10 seconds then restart
> if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
> # virus database updater
> check process freshclam
> pidfile /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid
> group virus
> start program = "/etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam start"
> stop program = "/etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam stop"
> if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
