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

[Marc Haber]

clone #426117 -1
retitle -1 clamd socket unavailable during reload
reassign -1 clamav-daemon
block #426117 with -1
thanks

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.

Greetings
Marc

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