[clamav-users] clamav-milter & logrotation

Shawn Webb swebb at sourcefire.com
Mon Nov 17 13:09:06 UTC 2014


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Andreas Schulze <andreas.schulze at datev.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I run clamd. Logs are written without syslog and rotated using logrotate:
>  - move old logfile away
>  - touch new logfile
>  - send clamd a SIGHUP
>
> that work without service interuption.
>
> Now I installed clamav-milter and did not found SIGHUP working the same
> way.
> looks like I have to *restart* clamav-milter on logrotation.
>
> Did I missed something?
> Andreas


Hey Andreas,

It appears clamav-milter does not do any signal handling whatsoever. I
think that handling SIGHUP would be a great idea. Would you mind filing a
bug report so that when we get time to add the feature, we can attribute it
to you?

Thanks,

Shawn



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