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ClamAV==Clamscan??

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  1. eagle

    eagle Well-Known Member

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    I have installed the Mailscanner option on the CPanel downloads (Latest MailScanner installer [exim4 virus scanner] (unsupported):
    mailscanner-autoinstall-1.5.tar.gz (Sat Aug 2 21:53:19 2003))

    Recently, I see very high cpu states with the Clamscan process (sometimes 50%, which results in loads higher than 5 - 6)

    Is it normal that the Clamscan process takes that much? Is there a way to lessen this (besides uninstalling :))?

    Thanks.
    Sam

    cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

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    #1 eagle, Oct 5, 2003
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    clamscan maxxing out cpu

    I am observing the same issue. Is anyone aware of what might be the problem/issue/resolution?

    Thanks.
     
    #2 Tina, Mar 25, 2004
  3. eagle

    eagle Well-Known Member

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    That's a shame :( , especially with those never ending worm attacks.
     
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    Try upgrading to the latest mailscanner and using clamavmodule instead of clamav. That should reduce the load. It did for me.
     
    #4 casey, Mar 26, 2004
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    upgraded to the latest and ran the perl module and ive found that all is ok then suddenly loads go thru the roof and the only fix is to killall -9 mailscanner and then restart mailscanner

    anyone else found this or know of a solution???

    Im running this on a hyperthreaded 3Ghz P4 with 2Gb ram so it should never have become an issue
     
    #5 Snowman30, Mar 30, 2004
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    Just to check, did you do all the following steps:

    You installed Mail::ClamAV:

    /scripts/perlinstaller Mail::ClamAV

    You then edited your /usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf file and changed the line:

    Virus Scanners = clamav

    to:

    Virus Scanners = clamavmodule

    Then killed off all the MailScanner processes and restarted MailScanner?

    Doing this should work, as it has for me on many servers and many others here.
     
    #6 chirpy, Mar 30, 2004
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    Yes all done.

    It works well for a while then suddenly with no warning loads go thru the roof and i have to killall and then restart it

    happens at least 6 times a day
     
    #7 Snowman30, Mar 30, 2004
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    Inline::C failing?

    Anybody else having problems with Inline::C failing while trying to install the Mail::ClamAV option?

    (sorry about the bump)
     
    #8 jalons, Apr 15, 2004
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    Re: Inline::C failing?


    Yes getting the same sort of problem.


    so i tried reinstalling Inline::C but it made no difference.

    anyone have a fix for it?
     
    #9 Snowman30, Apr 17, 2004
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    I had the same problem. Only reinstalling with the autoinstaller and with these :


    This is a revised howto from the one posted by anand at the cPanel forums.
    http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?s=...ighlight=clamav

    If you already have MailScanner installed:
    1) cd mailscanner-autoinstall-1.5
    2) ./uninstall

    If not, start here:
    1) Install the following perl modules from WHM:
    Net::CIDR
    Inline
    2) wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/mailscanner-autoi...tall-1.5.tar.gz
    3) tar -xzvf mailscanner-autoinstall-1.5.tar.gz
    4) cd mailscanner-autoinstall-1.5
    5) wget http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner...4.28.6-1.tar.gz
    6) mv MailScanner-4.28.6-1.tar.gz MailScanner-4.28.6.tar.gz
    7) pico install
    8) Change QUOTE
    $version = "4.22-5";
    to QUOTE
    $version = "4.28.6";

    9) ctrl-x to save
    10) wget http://twtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/source...-0.70-rc.tar.gz
    11) pico claminstall
    12) Go to line 10, and replace tar xfzv clamav-0.60.tar.gz with tar xfzv clamav-0.70-rc.tar.gz
    On line 11, replace cd clamav-0.60 with cd clamav-0.70-rc
    13) ctrl-x to save


    directions (from http://forum.cpanelhosts.com/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=299&st=0)



    and than manually (not through whm) installing mail::clamav did it. But now I get a lot of defuncts and hanging mailscanner processes, so I shut it down to avoid enormous loads.
     
    #10 eagle, Apr 17, 2004
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    I've deinstalled mailscanner. I'm sick of the loads and Mail::ClamAv doens't seem to work (the virus warnings suddenly stopped as where I received a couple in an hour before.

    Does anyone know of another scanner, which doesn't take so much load???
     
    #11 eagle, Apr 17, 2004
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    Another idea would be to use clamdscan instead, since libclamav is a bit recent

    I'm not 100% sure on how to do this yet, I'll have to post a thread on the mailscanner forum/mailing list
    if anyone beats me there, please post a pointer here...
     
    #12 perlchild, Apr 17, 2004
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    Re: Re: ClamAV==Clamscan??

    An extract from clamav website

    http://clamav.sourceforge.net/doc/0.70/html/node19.html

    Clamdscan

    it can't use external unpackers


    So what happens to attachment scanning ?
     
    #13 anand, Apr 18, 2004
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    anand Well-Known Member

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    hmmm...

    Another extract from clam website

    All ClamAV scanners depend on LibClamAV. It has a built-in support for the following formats:
    Zip
    Gzip
    Bzip2
    RAR (2.0 only)


    Probably answer to my own question :p
     
    #14 anand, Apr 18, 2004
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    #16 anand, Apr 20, 2004
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    eagle Well-Known Member

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    I experimented with the versions of Mail::ClamAV and Mailscanner.

    I used the lastest version of Mailscanner and 0.6 of Mail::ClamAV.

    After that I only had to install one more Perl module and the thing worked.
     
    #17 eagle, Apr 20, 2004
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    which other module ?
     
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    #19 eagle, Apr 20, 2004
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    Well i know about that thread, and if you look at the last few posts in which you say you had trouble with Inline module and reinstall it, you will find that there is no posting on what module needs to be installed additionally to solve it.

    Probably i wud have missed it, thats the reason i posted the message asking you which module was it. anyways...
     
    #20 anand, Apr 20, 2004
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