[ALUG] clamav on etch and cpu usage

[Brett Parker]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:49:50PM +0100, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> I *think* so (cautiously).
> The acl says it uses clamav for virus scanning, but the actual call
> for /usr/bin/clamscan I found in
> /etc/Mailscanner/wrappers/clamav-wrapper, where I changed the line
> ClamScan=$1/bin/clamscan
> to
> ClamScan=$1/bin/clamdscan
>
> I restarted Mailscanner and htop showed
> /usr/sbin/clamd (I suppose the daemon knows all the options?)
> It ran at 100% and now cpu usage has dropped to between 1% and 20%
> with the odd spike.

That's much better :)

> I'm really nervous in case it isn't actually working anymore though -
> shame I can't send myself a virus to check :-)

Course you can - eicar is everyones friend (as Wayne said ;)

> I don't know why we use Mailscanner - haven't really sussed what it
> is,, although it is on my list somewhere of ToFindOuts.

Potentially the exim4 config was built from an exim3 one, exim3 didn't
have shiny acls of doom which are a major part of exim4 (and very very
very useful :)

> Thanks, Brett,
> Can you hear the server sighing with gratitude from there?

No problem - we loikes mail we do! (Now, if you can just find me enough
time to shift our mailserver from exim3 to exim4, that'd be grand :)

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker