[clamav-users] ERROR: VirusEvent: fork failed.

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Tom Ossman via clamav-users wrote:
>>
>>> ... the VirusEvent script (also cleansed).
>>
>> Does the script contain the first two lines as in the version which
>> you sent to me?  If so, remove them.  See the 'man' page for the
>> 'file' utility and use it on your script. :)
>>
>> Are you refering to the comment and shebang? If so, the comment isn't
> there but the shebang is and if that is one of the lines you are refering
> to, correct me if I am wrong but doesn't a script need the shebang to run?

In the script which you attached the shebang line is the third line.
The first two lines were a non-shebang line comment and a blank line.
Obviously the shebang line must be the first line in the real script.
(When I asked you to show us the script, I didn't mean for you to show
us some rough approximation to it. :)

You might want to use full path names for things like 'cat' in the
script so that it doesn't depend e.g. on environment variables which
might not be set.

> ... from what I have observed in the past the memory did not look like
> it was being maxed out.  But spinning up a larger instance with more
> memory is not a big deal.

Please let me know if you have any more information about resources.

We still don't know that this is not a fault in ClamAV itself of
course, but as it appears that at some time the sytem _was_ working,
it seems much more likely to be an issue with your configuration.

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73,
Ged.