Bug 484742 - ClamAV complains that system limit is lower than maxfile or maxscan
Summary: ClamAV complains that system limit is lower than maxfile or maxscan
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: clamav
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Enrico Scholz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-02-09 19:00 UTC by Derek Atkins
Modified: 2009-12-18 07:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:52:03 UTC
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Description Derek Atkins 2009-02-09 19:00:44 UTC
Description of problem:

I'm seeing a bunch of these in my logs:

 System limit for file size is lower than maxfilesize or maxscansize

I'm using the default clamav configuration in terms of these settings.

I think part of the problem is that there's a ulimit setting in the clamav init script with a hard-coded value of 25MB, whereas the MaxScanSize default is 100M (the MaxFileSize default appears to be 25MB).

It would be nice if the ulimit size were configurable via /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

clamav-0.94.2-1.fc10 (and all associated RPMs)

How reproducible:

Hard to tell, but I've been getting them in my log files for a while.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup clamav
2. run the default configuration
3. wait, watch the logs
  
Actual results:

 ClamAV-milter started at Sun Feb  8 11:25:40 2009
 System limit for file size is lower than maxfilesize or maxscansize
 Database has changed, loading updated database
 Loaded ClamAV 0.94.2/8966/Sun Feb  8 18:43:40 2009
 ClamAV: Protecting against 513143 viruses
 Database correctly reloaded (513143 viruses)


Expected results:

No complaints about the system limit size

Additional info:

This is discussed here:
http://www.nabble.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-"System-limit-for-file-size-is-lower-than-maxfilesize-or-maxscansize"-td20534062.html

And this may be related to bug #442169

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