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Re: [Clamav-users] SelfCheck of clamd does not work!

From: Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar_at_nospam>
Date: Mon Jan 14 2008 - 11:02:57 GMT
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>

Matthias Hank wrote:
> No other entries in clamav.log since 10:59:11 ...
>
>
>

> BTW: On one of my other servers, SelfCheck does strange things too.
> Even if it is configured to do Selfcheck each 300 secs, it does what it wants:
>
> Mon Jan 14 10:08:45 2008 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK.
> Mon Jan 14 10:15:20 2008 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK.
>

> This is on debian/4.0
>
> On a FreeBSD Machine, it checks exactly each 300 secs:
>
> Jan 14 11:02:21 scan1 clamd[557]: SelfCheck: Database status OK.
> Jan 14 11:07:22 scan1 clamd[557]: SelfCheck: Database status OK.
>

Is this FreeBSD by any chance a busy mailserver? I seem to recall that SelfCheck is queued, and only performed when a scan request comes in.

Regards,

Fajar

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