Re: [Clamav-users] Switching from clamscan to clamdscan

Thank you for the information. I have given it a try and setup the clamd.conf file to connect to the already existing spf-milter. I then changed the clamav-wrapper to use clamdscan instead of clamscan. I then restarted MailScanner and it seems to be ok because if I run "top -d1 | grep clam" I see that calmav-wrapper and clamdscan is being called. The only problem I see is that if I go to MailWatch and check the clamav status I get a bunch of warnings. followed by the information I want. It appears that this is caused by the clamav-wrapper file but I'm not sure why. Any ideas?

Here is that output.

WARNING: Ignoring option --unzip
Virus Identities:
Database Timestamp:
Version: WARNING: Ignoring option --jar Virus Identities:
Database Timestamp:
Version: WARNING: Ignoring option --tar Virus Identities:
Database Timestamp:
Version: WARNING: Ignoring option --tgz Virus Identities:
Database Timestamp:
Version: WARNING: Ignoring option --deb Virus Identities:
Database Timestamp:
Version: WARNING: Ignoring option --max-ratio Virus Identities:
Database Timestamp:
Version: WARNING: Ignoring option --tempdir Virus Identities:
Database Timestamp:
Version: ClamAV 0.90.3
Virus Identities: 3606
Database Timestamp: Thu Jul 5 13:50:01 2007

                                                                      
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Quoting David Boltz <dboltz@cornwall.ca>:

> I?m hoping that someone can shed some light for me here. My current
> setup is MailScanner/SpamAssassin/Sendmail/spf-milter and ClamAV
.90.3
> using clamscan. ClamAV has caused the server to come to a
screeching
> halt recently due to clamscan timeouts and therefore I had to
disable
> ClamAV.

The newest version of MailScanner has native clamd support, so if you upgrade MailScanner, you can switch from clamscan to clamd support, and your performance should be very fast (faster than clamscan ever was).

> I want to switch the setup to clamdscan with the clamd
> running but my experience with this system is extremely limited.
The

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The newest MailScanner, IIRC, interfaces directly to clamd, without clamdscan. But I'm not 100% sure of that. In any case, it seems to work well, and is faster than clamscan for sure.

> to replace my spf-milter with clamav-milter for clamd to get my
socket
> created?

No, you don't need to run clamav-milter, since the new MailScanner has native support for clamd. You can still use the spf-milter.

> If someone can point me in the right directions for all the
> necessary steps in this transition I would be very grateful.

1. Upgrade MailScanner if needed.
2. Setup clamd and start it running.
3. Tell MailScanner to use clamd instead of clamav/clamscan.

> Thanks,
> Dave B.
>
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Eric Rostetter
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The University of Texas at Austin

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