[clamav-users] clamav-milter: Failed to create temporary file

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 21.08.14 17:04, Urban Loesch wrote:
>Recently I installed a fresh installation with postfix and clamav-milter and debian testing:

testing? Why testing?

>Sometiems (about 1-10 times a day) I get the following error in my logfile:
>
>...
>Aug 21 15:26:09 mil2 clamav-milter[26215]: Failed to create temporary file
>Aug 21 15:26:09 mil2 clamav-milter[26215]: Failed to initiate streaming/fdpassing
>...

>It seems that clamav-milter sometimes isn't able to create a the temporary file and postfix answers with a
>"4.7.1 Service unavailable" message to the client.

This should not be a big issue, since the remote clients can resent in a
while. It only makes troubles for end-users.

>I'm using a tmpfs for /tmp with about 1G of space which isnt very much in use.
>
>...
>none           tmpfs  1,0G       0  1,0G    0% /tmp
>...

what's the TemporaryDirectory setting in clamav-milter.conf?

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