[clamav-users] Communication error

[Shawn Webb]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Henri Salo <henri at nerv.fi> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I've been having lots of problems with scanning major dataset. Command I
> execute
> is: "clamdscan -i -m --fdpass /mnt/dataset/ --log=clamav.log"
>
> After some time of processing ClamAV starts to find malware and in this
> point
> I'm still a happy administrator. Soon my feelings get little confused. I
> get
> following error: "ERROR: Communication error"
>
> This is in the logfile as well as in the stdout. I previously tried to ask
> about
> this in devel mailing list, but did not get any responses.
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/clamav-devel@lists.clamav.net/msg03682.html
>
> While enabling all debug logging I see this line in clamav.log:
>
> Thu May 29 19:04:32 2014 -> Client read timed out
>
> I tried to increase timeouts in clamd.conf:
>
> ReadTimeout 1200
> IdleTimeout 300
> CommandReadTimeout 5
> SendBufTimeout 200
> BytecodeTimeout 60000
>
> I still receive same Communication error, but not as fast as before. Do
> you have
> ideas how to get rid of this problem? This issue makes ClamAV unusable in
> our
> environment and I'd really like to know if there is malware in for example
> our
> user's web sites.
>
> 10.0.0.1:/mnt/dataset/   28T   16T   13T  56% /mnt/dataset/


Hey Henri,

Which version of ClamAV are you using? On what OS and architecture?

Thanks,

Shawn