clamd appears to hanging

[David Banning]

Turns out all is good - I see there is a header now in each email;

X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 210125-8, 2021-01-25), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

which I am assuming is from Clamav.

On 2021-01-25 2:00 p.m., David Banning wrote:
> thanks for that - it turns out that when I waited,  spamd -does- 
> eventually start - I think it took 45 minutes - knowing that it was 
> operating was only from sending the eicar virus to myself - it shows 
> that it caught it in the maillog,  but no email cleaned version of the 
> email arrived,  and there is no header in clean emails to show they 
> have been checked - but it works.  That's the good news.  It would be 
> helpful to have -something- that tells me that it is operating - even 
> an occasional clean scan note in maillog would be great.
>
> I'll keep an eye to see if it continues to take a long time to start 
> at boot time - I may have to have it -not- start at boot, and start it 
> manually.
>
>
> On 2021-01-25 5:00 a.m., Doug Hardie wrote:
>>> On 24 January 2021, at 08:09, David Banning 
>>> <david+dated+1611936580.6d1518 at skytracker.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just installed clamd on an older version of Freebsd. Freshclam 
>>> appears to be working fine,  but clamd seems to hang, which prevents 
>>> my server from booting.
>>> I don't see anything in the log;
>>>
>>>
>>> Any pointers towards getting this up and running would be helpful.
>>> The Freebsd version and Clamd version are noted at the beginning of 
>>> the log.
>> Clamd may be waiting on freshclam.  However, it still takes clamd 
>> "forever" to load the virus database.  You have 2 options:
>>
>> 1.  If you connect to the machine via ssh, then edit /etc/rc.d/sshd 
>> and add FILESYSTEMS to the REQUIRE line.  That will cause sshd to 
>> become active before clamd tries to start up.  You will be able to 
>> poke around and see what is going on.
>>
>> 2.  If you use a directly connected terminal, then disable clamd and 
>> freshclam in /etc/rc.d.  Boot up and then start them up manually.  
>> You do need to run freshclam first though.
>>
>> In any case, be prepared to wait a long time for clamd to start.
>>
>> -- Doug
>>
>>
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