Matus,
Thanks for confirming this problem. I could believe I was the only one seeing this. Ken On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Hello, > > I was talking to clamav packages maintainer and have some advices from him. > > > On 14.03.07 15:36, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > > We have the latest version for sarge debian-volatile clamav-daemon, > > > clamav-milter and clamav-freshclam Version: 0.90.1-0volatile1. > > > > > > We have everything working properly except for the "clamav.log" file. It > > > works fine (logs like it should) when you start it up and it runs fine > > > till the logs are archived, with logrotate, at 6:30 each morning. > > > > > > At that time there is a signal sent to the clamav-daemon init program that > > > resets the clamav-daemon, but the clamav-milter needs to be reset as well, > > > and it is not. So all the information about blocked viruses - etc., is not > > > being recorded in the /var/log/clamav/clamav.log file. > > On 15.03.07 11:25, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > I confirm this behaviour, I just found clamav-milter logging to > > /var/log/clamav/clamav.log.1 ... > > > > not even talking about clamav-milter turning debug on even when I have > > "Debug false" in clamd.conf, not supporting the codumented "-x" option :( > > setting "LogVerbose false" helped a bit. however "the milter's log code is > pretty craptastic" and the milter's maintainer "uses sylog only, so he's > mostly just not interested in what the logfile output looks like" > > > > I have gotten around this by shutting down the sendmail program and > > > waiting for about 1/2 minute, then doing a forced-restart of the > > > clamav-milter program and starting the sendmail backup again. > > > > > > Does anyone know of a better way of getting the clamav-milter to start > > > writing to logs again after the logrotate is done each morning? > > > > it seems that clamav-milter does not have possibility to reopen log file > > turn on LogSyslog in /etc/clamav/clamav.conf > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414993 > > Until this gets fixed somehow, it would be better to use LogSyslog for > clamav-daemon and clamav-milter (since they use the same config file). > > > ... seems there are more bugs in clamav-milter to report... > > until then, you may just use milter without clamd to the syslog shouldn't be > a problem. > > -- > Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ > Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. > Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. > 10 GOTO 10 : REM (C) Bill Gates 1998, All Rights Reserved! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
