Author: Ian Eiloart Date: To: Jon Gerdes CC: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] [clamav-users] problem reading socket while updating
database
> On 8 Jul 2015, at 09:45, Jon Gerdes <gerdesj@???> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 08:34 +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>> Apologies for cross posting. This question is about Exim and clamd. Specifically, how can we deal with a clam daemon that’s unresponsive (for five minutes) while updating rules. The obvious thing would be to wait a bit longer rather than time out, but I can’t see a control for that. I have some alternative suggestions, of which (3) below seems most promising, if somewhat complicated.
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> Straight off the top of my head without any research:
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> Sounds like you need a cluster of ClamAV or multiple daemons that are
> updated at different times. Exim *may* be able to handle multiple
> daemons/sockets or you need a load balancer like HA Proxy to act as a
> front end.
>
> Cheers
> Jon
Yes, that was my "(3) below". The docs say you can list multiple IP addresses, but not multiple UNIX sockets for this purpose. But I think the question related to a setup with a single host with limited resource. If funds are available for new machines, commodity modern hardware could probably cope and none of the complexity would be required.
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