[Mimedefang] Start order for sendmail, MD and Clam

alan premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Tue Jun 7 10:29:43 EDT 2005


Dirk the Daring wrote:
>    Is there a particular order in which I should start sendmail, MD and
> Clam? That is, are there any dependencies, or reason that one should be
> running before the other (seems that sendmail will gripe about a missing
> socket if MD is not running, so I start MD first, but what about Clam?)
> 
> Sendmail v8.13.4
> MIMEDefang v2.51
> Clam v0.85
> 
Dirk,

  I start mine in the order of:

CLAMD
MIMEDefang
Sendmail

considering the logic that MIMEDefang makes calls that may require 
CLAMAV's resources (in this case clamd), and sendmail makes calls that 
may require MIMEDefang's resources, it seemed appropriate to ensure that 
those resources available before any chance of them being called.

subsequently, i shut them down in reverse order.

HTH

Alan



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