Re: [Clamav-users] amavisd-new + clamAV ?

From: Gary V <mr88talent(at)hotmail.com>
Date: Wed Jul 04 2007 - 22:21:52 EDT

>Captain Hook wrote:
> > I would like to ask one question.
> > I currently updated amavisd-new-2.5.2,1 clamav-0.90.3 in FreeBSD, and it
> > turned out the speed of sending out and receiving the email becomes so
>slow.
> >
> > I discovered that amavisd-new is proceeding the virus scanning by using
> > clamscan, which takes 2 process by capacity 60%-90% of CPU,
> > meanwhile it takes 3 minutes to scan one email.
> >
> > Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?
>
>When you restart amavisd, check /var/log/maillog and see whether it then
>finds
>the clamd socket as the primary virus scanner, rather than just clamscan.
>
>Double-check which users amavisd and clamd are running as-- the default
>ports
>config seems to have clamd running as the "clamav" user, and
>amavisd+SpamAssassin as "vscan". Enabling in clamd.conf
>"AllowSupplimentaryGroups" option and adding the "clamav" userid to the
>vscan
>group in /etc/groups lets them talk.
>
>Regards,
>--
>-Chuck

Exactly, exept now it's "AllowSupplementaryGroups yes". http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/clamav-amavisd-new.html

Gary V

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