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

[Andrew Watkins]

On 11/13/19 10:39 AM, Andrew Watkins via clamav-users wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Thanks! I installed latest devel version "ClamAV 
0.103.0-devel-20191113/25633/Thu Nov 14 09:50:04 2019" and have not had 
any errors in 24hours.

Will keep it running to see if any other problems with next release. 
Anyway, great work.

Andrew



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