Re: clamd socket timeout

Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have observed the following a while ago, when my clamd started playing
> weird on me:
> 
> exim would connect to clamd and try sending it something, but there
> would never be a response [due to clamd being f*ed up].
> Now, exim was waiting and waiting for a response. Shortly after I was up
> to a few hundred exim processes all waiting for clamd to do something.
> 
> Is there any way to specify a timeout on the clamd control socket? At
> least then mail delivery would continue, albeit unscanned.

What version of Exim/Exiscan are you using?  There is a bug in the older
version of exiscan (I know it was a problem in version 21) that will 
cause timeout problems with version 0.80 of clamd.  If that is the case, 
you can upgrade to the latest Exim/Exiscan combo or use 0.75.1 of clamd 
(which will make you vulnerable to some viruses that 0.80 catches).

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