Re: Clamav-Milter not logging properly.
Hello,
I was talking to clamav packages maintainer and have some advices from him.
> On 14.03.07 15:36, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
> > We have the latest version for sarge debian-volatile clamav-daemon,
> > clamav-milter and clamav-freshclam Version: 0.90.1-0volatile1.
> >
> > We have everything working properly except for the "clamav.log" file. It
> > works fine (logs like it should) when you start it up and it runs fine
> > till the logs are archived, with logrotate, at 6:30 each morning.
> >
> > At that time there is a signal sent to the clamav-daemon init program that
> > resets the clamav-daemon, but the clamav-milter needs to be reset as well,
> > and it is not. So all the information about blocked viruses - etc., is not
> > being recorded in the /var/log/clamav/clamav.log file.
On 15.03.07 11:25, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> I confirm this behaviour, I just found clamav-milter logging to
> /var/log/clamav/clamav.log.1 ...
>
> not even talking about clamav-milter turning debug on even when I have
> "Debug false" in clamd.conf, not supporting the codumented "-x" option :(
setting "LogVerbose false" helped a bit. however "the milter's log code is
pretty craptastic" and the milter's maintainer "uses sylog only, so he's
mostly just not interested in what the logfile output looks like"
> > I have gotten around this by shutting down the sendmail program and
> > waiting for about 1/2 minute, then doing a forced-restart of the
> > clamav-milter program and starting the sendmail backup again.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a better way of getting the clamav-milter to start
> > writing to logs again after the logrotate is done each morning?
>
> it seems that clamav-milter does not have possibility to reopen log file
> turn on LogSyslog in /etc/clamav/clamav.conf
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414993
Until this gets fixed somehow, it would be better to use LogSyslog for
clamav-daemon and clamav-milter (since they use the same config file).
> ... seems there are more bugs in clamav-milter to report...
until then, you may just use milter without clamd to the syslog shouldn't be
a problem.
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