Re: [exim] clamd: killed last night

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Author: Stephen Gran
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] clamd: killed last night
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:00:50AM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann said:
> Hello,
>
> I know, it is slightly offtopic, but on this list I expect some response
> to confirm my suspicion:
>
> Last night, around 23:30 the freshclam daemon tried unsuccessfully to
> connect to a number of webservers. These attempts probably took a long
> time. During (?) this time the clamav-daemon (the scanner itself) died
> (around 0:30).
>
> I experienced this behaviour on a number of machines last night.
>
> Is there anybody else who had the same problem?


Yes, it's a known problem in clamav at the moment. It's expected to be
fixed for 0.93, due to be released this month (maybe the 14th, but no
promises).
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