Re: amavisd-new times out

On 3/24/08, huetmannvioline.at <huetmannvioline.at> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running a similar setup with sendmail on CentOS5,
which is almost the
> same as RHEL5.1
>
> However I am not using clamscan but the daemonized
version clamd, and that
> has worked very well so far. You just have to make sure
that the users
> running amavisd and clamd are the same.
>
> clamav has a much newer version than the one you are
using, which might be
> the reason.
>
> [huetmanngeorge ~]$ rpm -qi clamd
> Name        : clamd                        Relocations:
(not relocatable)
> Version     : 0.92.1                            Vendor:
Dag Apt
> Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/

> Release     : 1.rf                          Build Date:
Wed 13 Feb 2008
> 07:51:08 AM CET
> Install Date: Wed 13 Feb 2008 07:51:42 AM CET     
Build Host:
> george.eliot.priv.at
> Group       : System Environment/Daemons    Source
RPM:
> clamav-0.92.1-1.rf.src.rpm
> Size        : 184907                           License:
GPL
> Signature   : (none)
> Packager    : Dag Wieers <dagwieers.com>
> URL         : http://www.clamav.net/
> Summary     : The Clam AntiVirus Daemon
> Description :
> The Clam AntiVirus Daemon
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> .peter
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Martin Mielke wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to the list and believe me, I did my
homework before posting 
> >
> > Our scenario looks like this:
> >
> >    RHEL 5.1
> >    Perl 5.8.8
> >    amavisd-new-2.5.4-1.el5.rf
> >    spamassassin-3.2.4-1.el5.rf
> >    clamav-db-0.90.3-1
> >    clamav-server-0.90.3-1
> >    clamav-0.90.3-1
> >    MySQL 5.0.22
> >    Cyrus IMAP 2.3.7
> >    Postfix 2.3.3-2
> >
> > so far, so good...
> >
> > Everything was working just fine but it suddenly
stopped. Now emails are
> > being queued but not delivered at all...
> >
> > These are some excerpts from the /var/log/maillog
file:
> >
> > ---
> > Mar 24 16:46:21 v601 amavis[27659]: (27659-01)
(!)killing process
> > [27732] running ClamAV-clamscan (reason: on
reading: timed out)
> > Mar 24 16:46:21 v601 amavis[27659]: (27659-01)
(!)run_av
> > (ClamAV-clamscan): collect_results - reading
aborted: timed out at
> > /usr/sbin/amavisd line 2815.
> > Mar 24 16:46:21 v601 amavis[27659]: (27659-01)
(!!)ClamAV-clamscan
> > av-scanner FAILED: /usr/bin/clamscan
collect_results - reading aborted:
> > timed out at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 2815. at (eval
85) line 511.
> > Mar 24 16:46:21 v601 amavis[27659]: (27659-01)
(!!)TROUBLE in
> > check_mail: virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: ALL
VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED:
> > ClamAV-clamscan av-scanner FAILED:
/usr/bin/clamscan collect_results -
> > reading aborted: timed out at /usr/sbin/amavisd
line 2815. at (eval 85)
> > line 511.
> > ---
> >
> > or
> >
> > ---
> > Mar 24 16:33:32 v601 amavis[26735]: (26735-01)
(!!)WARN: all primary
> > virus scanners failed, considering backups
> > Mar 24 16:33:32 v601 amavis[26528]: (26528-01)
(!)_DIE: timed outn
> > Mar 24 16:33:32 v601 amavis[26528]: (26528-01)
(!)TempDir removal:
> > tempdir is to be PRESERVED:
/home/amavis/tmp/amavis-20080324T162812-26528
> > ---
> >
> > Unfortunately I couldn't find anything related to
that on the archives...
> >
> > Could someone please shed some light?? This is a
production email server
> > and ... well, you know the rest...
> >
> > Maybe I'm overseeing something obvious...
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> > Martin
> >

0.90 versions of clamav are known to take forever (up to 15
minutes)
to load the virus definitions (using current databases).
Clamscan
loads the database each time it runs, and clamd once each
time the
database is updated. You need to use a newer version.

-- 
Gary V

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