Re: [AMaViS-user] Amavisd-new clamscan vs clamd

[Stephane L. <Ste...@an...>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:51:37AM -0400, Mike Cathey wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 10:28, Dan Vande More wrote:
> > There was some debate with a gentleman and I about 1.5 months ago about this same thing.
> > I didn't care for another daemon to look after, but was not sure which was the best way.
> > He seemed confident that the daemon was better able to handle the load.
> > Quite honestly, I use the clamscan binary on 130k emails a day without a problem.
> > 
> > It would be interesting to hear what others have to say though.
> 
> I'm using clamd without any problems on 271-320k messages/week.
> 
> ...
> Does amavisd-new have a builtin feature that allows it to fallback on
> the binary if the daemon dies?  I didn't notice this in the config when
> I set it up a while ago, but I could have missed it.   Someone on
> freenode.net/#postfix mentioned that it supported this.
> 

Yes, with recent amavisd-new versions you have 2 variables 
@av_scanners and 
@av_scanners_backup

The comment in amavisd.conf makes it clear : 

# If no virus scanners from the @av_scanners list produce 'clean' nor
# 'infected' status (e.g. they all fail to run or the list is empty),
# then _all_ scanners from the @av_scanners_backup list are tried.
# When there are both daemonized and command-line scanners available,
# it is customary to place slower command-line scanners in the
# @av_scanners_backup list. The default choice is somewhat arbitrary,
# move entries from one list to another as desired.

Regards, 

SL/
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Stephane Lentz 
Alcanet International, Internet Services