Re: file monitor fails on files in MFS filesystem

[Martin Pala]

can you send the output of "ls -l /var/lib/clamav/mirrors.dat"?

the 'check file' requires that the target is regular file (no symlink or 
any other type)

Thanks,
Martin

Jeff Richards wrote:
> I have clamav updating into a MFS(OpenBSD, MFS=memory filesystem) and 
> periodically sync it to a directory on the drive.  I wanted to monitor 
> the file '/var/lib/clamav/mirrors.dat' so if it was updated I use that 
> as my trigger to execute my sync script.
>
> monit reports this error: 'mirrors.dat' is not regular file
>
> I guess it has something to do with the file being in MFS?
>
> I got around my problem because I noticed that freshclam has a 
> --on-update-execute switch which does what I need.
>
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