[clamav-users] Problem running virus scanner: code=999, category=cannot-execute, action=tempfail

[Andrew Watkins]

On 11/13/19 10:33 AM, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
>
> Perhaps clamd is reloading its databases when you see this. Depending
> on configuration and the host performance it can take anywhere between
> a few tens of seconds and several minutes to reload all the databases,
> and during that time currently released versions of clamd won't scan.
> Check the logs for the reload messages.  There's a patch currently in
> testing which permits clamd to continue scanning while reloading, the
> patch is available if you wish to build clamd yourself, and it should
> be available in a released version of clamd quite soon I hope. There
> has been some discussion on this list recently if you'd like to look.
>
Ah! I had read that discussion, but didn't put 2 and 2 together since I 
thought the database re-load had finished, but I think it may be this. I 
will look at download and build patched version.

Cheers,

Andrew

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