[Pkg-clamav-devel] Clamav in stable

[Bjoern Meier]

hi,

2009/2/5 Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org>

> This one time, at band camp, Bjoern Meier said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > This one time, at band camp, Bjoern Meier said:
> > >
> > >> hi,
> > >> I've installed a fresh Debian Etch to test clamav. Could it be, that
> > >> there a two bugs?:
> > >>
> > >
> > > I think they are the same problem, see below.
> > >
> > >
> > >> - freshclam seems to hang if you want to update the sigs
> > >> - if you use postfix with amavis the email keeps in queue and
> > >> clamav-scan hangs with 100% cpu usage.
> > >>
> > >
> > > The version of clamav in etch has a very hard time loading signatures
> of
> > > a certain type that came into use after the release of etch.  freshclam
> > > will try to load and validate the signtures, which is why it seems to
> > > hang for a long time.  Also, I am guessing that you're using clamscan
> > > with amavis (not clamdscan), which will suffer the same problem.
> > >
> > > I highly recommend using the packages of clamav available from
> > > http://volatile.debian.org/
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> >
> > well, I use volatile. But I have a hard discussion with Peer Heinlein
> > (maybe you know him, if not he had wrote some very good books about LPI
> > and Postfix), he says (on a public lists) that the pakage is NOT working
> > and I must agree. So I hoped we could bring something on the way.
>
> I'd prefer to keep replies on list, if that's ok with you.
>
> Are you using 3rd party signatures (sanesecurity, etc)?  It's working
> just fine for me, and judging by the lack of bug reports saying "it's
> not working", I have to assume it works for most other people as well.
>
> Can you provide more information?
>

sry, I want to reply on list. Well, I think thats clamav hang with amavis
seems to be a bug. I also think it is reproduceable. And I don't use third
party signatures, because upstream reported a bug.

Greetings,
Björn



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