Topic: Freshclam error

[brianr]

40freshclambjr

Yes I also have that file - and have deleted it.  It is one I sent Jesper many moons ago, as part of an update to the freshclam mechanism, It must have sneaked into the update for 0.88.1.

[ReetP]

Ah ha ! That makes sense now Brian - thanks.

All seems quiet on the Western Front now. Pretty sure it's cured. What about everyone else ?

[Brenno]

Hmm... found this thread after starting to receive this same "internal logger" error via email this morning.

I have checked my cron logs, and I do not have two instances of cron running freshclam at the same time.  I also don't have that extra templates file "40freshclambjr" that ReetP had.  But I still get the message!

Running clam 0.88.2.

Thoughts?

[nmtrier]

I do not have two instances of cron running freshclam at the same time.  

Thoughts?

That sounds like my symptons last week. Do you still have one instance of frechlam running? it is supposed to run and finish, but I had the process running from May 1st until I killed it on May 6th.  During that whole time I got the irritating message, but as soon as I killed the rogue instance of fresclam, normal service resumed. (see my previous post on page 1)
Nick

[Brenno]

nmtrier,

Yes - I did have one instance running.  After re-reading your initial post, I realized that it shouldn't have been.  I killed the process as per your instructions and all is well now.  Thanks!

[ReetP]

Uh oh. It's started again !

It look like the job is not finishing correctly or something as if I ps -e |grep fresh I still have a process running.

If I kill it, it seems to be OK for the next run, but then doesn't seem to end the task again.

Now if I try to type :

/usr/bin/freshclam -v
/usr/bin/freshclam --quiet
/usr/bin/freshclam --debug

I get 'Problem with internal logger'

I have just swapped the update servers over to Belgium rather than the UK . I then ran :

/usr/bin/freshclam -l /var/log/clamav/clam-update.log

This checked the updates and now I no longer get the error messages at the command prompt. I'll wait and see what occurs next.

[ReetP]

All quiet at the moment with servers set to Belgium.

Will monitor accordingly. Away for a week now. Will try to go back to the UK servers when I get back.

[Knuddi]

Just noticed this thread - there is not additional 40freshclambrj in the disti of sme-antivirus and the clam package doesn't have that either. This file must come from somewhere else

[Brenno]

Revisted this thread this morning after having the "Problem with internal logger" emails reappear.  This time, I knew how to fix it, thanks to these forums, but why might it be happening again?

[ReetP]

The best return from holiday that I could have - no email warnings !

Just going to try my local UK servers again and see what happens.