Re: [exim] clamd: unable to connect to UNIX socket?/var/run/…

W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:
> Stephen Gran wrote:
[...]
>> The version of clamd he's running has some known bugs WRT signature
>> processing - it takes ages to load the signature (sometimes more than 15
>> minutes on even good hardware), and it won't create the socket until it
>> has loaded the signatures.

>> This has gotten to be sort of a FAQ on the clamav-users list, which is
>> why I pointed the OP there.

>> Cheers,

> Have similar issue on a FreeBSD 4.11 box we don't want to upgrade,
> though five minutes is closer than 15.

> Didn't realize it was a problem, as we don't start Exim until its
> dependencies (ClamAV, SA, PostgreSQL) are all online.

> I'd have thought the Linux way with intird runlevels would have done the
> same, if not better....

Hello,

the problem happens every time the virus db is updated not just at
starting the daemon. On top of that even at startup it loads the db
after forking, when the init script has already finished.

cu andreas

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