[clamav-users] Maximize availability during rule loading

[Charles Sprickman]

Hi all,

I have two VMs running clamav and I monitor both with a simple nagios check (it sends, PING, waits for PONG).  I have been getting quite a few notifications lately after adding sane security and other 3rd party AV rulesets.  Looking at the logs, I see that my timeouts line up with the reloading messages:

Nov 20 16:39:02 spam-a clamd[1417]: Reading databases from /var/db/clamav
Nov 20 16:41:14 spam-a clamd[1417]: Database correctly reloaded (7986341 signatures)

I do have two servers, so if this is expected behavior, I’ll just make nagios less touchy and let the mail server just fail over to the other box.  If not, what can be done to maintain availability while the db reloads?  I currently reload every hour (based on clamd.conf), occasionally more often if there are new rules detected by clamav-unofficial-sigs.

Thanks,

Charles
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Charles Sprickman
NetEng/SysAdmin
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