Bug#426117: exim4: unable to connect /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl, but /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl...

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:43:34PM +0200, Axel Ludszuweit wrote:
> > yes its ok for me to clone and reassign to clamav-daemon.
> 
> Doing so.
> 
> Clamav maintainers, #426117 is about exim complaining about
> unavailable clamav-socket once in a while. Since these error messages
> seem to coincede with clamav-daemon receiving a pattern update, I
> suspect that clamav-daemon removes its socket, reloads its databases
> (which takes several minutes) and re-creates the socket afterwards.
> 
> clamav-daemon should probably reload the databases in a dedicated
> thread so that it can still scan data (maybe with the old databases?)
> while it is reloading.
> 
> It seems natural to implement this in clamd itself instead of adapting
> all applications that might use clamd to cope with a temporarily
> unavailable clamd socket.

The upcoming 0.91.x release series looks like it will address some of
these issues, or at least make the signature reloading take
significantly less time than it currently does.  I have no time frame
for it's release, though.
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