Re: [Hampshire] ClamAV not running?

On Saturday 08 May 2010, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> FWIW I had issues yesterday (even though I'm using volatile - although
> I was a version down). I upgraded clam and then it failed to start,
> kicked the clamav extra updates crontab I have (which pulls in extra
> lists for email de-spamming) and then it was happy. I think the
> crontab had not been running due to lack of a newline in it (now
> fixed).
>

I've got mine clamav running again. Apparently the most recent version is VERY
memory hungry and in a VM with only 256 MiB of RAM it will crash and burn if
you have a lot of filters loaded in.

To get it running again I've added 256 MiB in a swap file, I know it's crude
but it's okay now. I don't want to pay for more RAM though I'm considering an
outsourced mail filtering option from my host (Bytemark).

--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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can't write software or protocols that can stably walk and chew gum,
program in a limit that prevents the user from telling it to do so.
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