[Mimedefang] virus scanner errors..

[Keith Patton]

Chris Gauch wrote:

>>Ok, I'm stumped..
>>
>>In my mail log I'm getting..
>>
>>Problem running virus scanner: code=0.54296875,stat=Problem running
>>virus-scanner
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Interesting...I've had this same message show up in the maillog; generally
>MIMEDefang has crashed by the time that message shows up.  I recently
>updated clamav to 0.75.1.
>
>I did make some changes to the clamav.conf file -- I scaled down the
>recursion depth and number of files to scan within an archive.  So far it's
>been ok, but these crashes were occurring once every few days prior to the
>configuration change.  
>
>What version of clamav are you running?
>
>- Chris
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I was running 0.70 and upgraded to 0.75.1.

Now I am seeing messages like  that I wasn't seeing before...

Sep 22 05:14:16 local52 mimedefang-multiplexor[2595]: [ID 980602 
mail.info] Slave 2 stderr: Out of memory!
Sep 22 05:14:16 local52 mimedefang-multiplexor[2595]: [ID 817788 
mail.error] Slave 2 ran out of memory -- possible DoS attack due to 
complex MIME?
Sep 22 05:14:16 local52 mimedefang[2610]: [ID 847421 mail.error] Error 
from multiplexor: ERR No response from slave
Sep 22 05:14:16 local52 mimedefang-multiplexor[2595]: [ID 260045 
mail.error] Reap: Idle slave 2 (pid 2613) exited normally with status 1 
(SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)

-keith