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

[Urban Loesch]

Hi,

>>>> "4.7.1 Service unavailable" message to the client.
> 
>> Am 22.08.2014 09:57, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
>>> This should not be a big issue, since the remote clients can resent in a
>>> while. It only makes troubles for end-users.
> 
> On 22.08.14 10:22, Urban Loesch wrote:
>> The milter is only active on my incoming server. No problems with endusers, they are sending trough another outgoing server.
>>
>> As I just said I my first post. Not a big problem, but not very nice to see :-)
> 
> how many mail per day?
> I haven't seen this message yet...

Not very often. Only 4-5 times a day. Not a big problem. Only, lets say a flaw.
> 
>>>> none           tmpfs  1,0G       0  1,0G    0% /tmp
> 
>>> what's the TemporaryDirectory setting in clamav-milter.conf?
> 
>> /tmp
> 
>> But for beeing secure that the ramdisk isn't the problem I moved it out of it to another temp directory (/var/tmp).
> 
> should not make the problem better, maybe even worse (/var/tmp is not on
> ramdisk and does not get cleaned on boot)

You are right. It dosn't made it better. I switched back to /tmp and ramdisk due to performance.

> 
>> I think the ramdisk is not the problem, becaue the error cames up also without the ramdisk involved.
> 
> precisely.
> 

Logging verbosly dosn't work too. No mor einfo in the logs. So I decided to change the option "OnFail" to "accept" in clamav-milter.conf.
It's workaround, and when it fails theese 4-5 times a day, the mail dosn't get rejected by the milter.

Thanks
Urban