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List:       exim-users
Subject:    Re: [exim] "unable to connect to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl"
From:       Marc Haber <mh+exim-users () zugschlus ! de>
Date:       2007-06-11 20:30:55
Message-ID: E1HxqXP-0002is-OV () scyw00225 ! scy001 ! de
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:08:08 +0200, Thomas Hochstein
<ml@ancalagon.inka.de> wrote:
>Marc Haber schrieb:
>> Does anybody have any idea what might be going on here 
>
>clamd reloading the virus database due to freshclam? IIRC there was an
>issue with reloading a rather large database taking quite a lot of
>time (seconds) on some release of clamav, and as long as clamd is
>restartig / reloading the virus database, it does not accept
>connections via TCP/IP. Perhaps it does not open the socket either?

Probably yes. When I look into my paniclog, I see the error as well.
Actually, it is so frequent that I have configured my daily cron job
not to alert. So, this looks like a real clamav issue and normal exim
operation.

Thanks for pointing my nose towards this.

Greetings
Marc

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