[KLUG Members] Red Hat, uvscan, and qmail

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Hey - I've been having an issue with uvscan, and I can't quite figure 
> out what's wrong. I've been able to ignore it, by and large, but it's 
> getting under my skin, and I can't find a resolution to this problem.
> We run qmail on an RH6.2 server running uvscan for virus scanning.  A 
> while (ways!) back, the ckupdate.sh script downloaded a new version; and 
> since then, if I run those newer dat files, uvscan will work normally, 
> save for every half-minute or so, it will start to scan something that 
> pretty much kills it. Uvscan will hang, use 100% CPU, and basically, 
> never terminate.

As a previous uvscan user,  all I can say is "Yup."

> I've been googling, and google grouping, but haven't found anything all 
> that... useful yet. Maybe if I was running redhat 9...

If you were running RH9 good luck getting uvscan to even run at all.  It
is linked to ancient libraries and totally chokes on any system that
hints at supporting NPTL.

> I'm running Scan engine v4.1.60 for Linux.

Ah, so they still haven't released a new version; nice.

>  Dat files are from July 26 
> (perhaps about the time it stopped working correctly).
> Have any of you had this problem?

Yes, but years ago.  We dropped uvscan and switched to clamav.