Re: Problems with clamav-milter

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:50 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Drew Bertola wrote:
> 
> > Dag Wieers wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, C.Lee Taylor wrote:
> > > 
> > > To me this smells like an upstream bug. The only way to make sure something
> > > like this is fixed is to make a detailed bugreport upstream.
> >  
> > This doesn't need to go into the sysconfig file provided w/ the RPM?
> > 
> > The only reason I say that there was a very clear error message suggesting
> > that this be done (not necessarily in a sysconfig file, but...).
> 
> If the clear error message was:
> 
> 	clamav-milter: --timeout must not be given if --external is not given
> 
> then you have to explain the message to me :)
> 
> We are not giving --external anywhere afaik, so why should we give 
> --timeout ? Besides what does it all mean, why can't there be a reasonable 
> default in this case ? It smells like a bug :)
> 
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  [email protected],  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

It is a bug... mentioned on the ClamAv list. A default timeout is
inadvertently set in the program. The workaround is to add the:

--timeout=0

flag to your clamav-milter file in sysconfig. Hadn't
heard anything about them patching it, and updating it though.

Roy