MS on a RHEL rebuild, perl modules problem?

[Remco Barendse]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Remco Barendse wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > At 09:07 20/07/2004, you wrote:
> > >On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Julian Field wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 08:08 20/07/2004, you wrote:
> > > > >I am using a RedHat Enterprise 3 rebuild (TaoLinux) and installed
> > > > >MailScanner on it. I installed through the install script.
> > > > >
> > > > >When virii come in they are caught by the filename rules and not by
> > > > >clamav.
> > > >
> > > > Are you using the command-line clamav or the perl module? I would suspect
> > > > the perl-MIME-tools didn't install correctly.
> > >
> > >I installed clamav from the tarball, no perl modules. When i start
> > >if from the commandline on of the files in quarantine it immediately
> > >catches the virus.
> >
> > Don't forget that clamav changes its uid when it is run, so it may just be
> > that it can't read your /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming.
>
> Strange, I compared permissions and the clamav.conf with another box but
> they appear the same. This other box is also running TaoLinux and clamav
> from a tarball (albeit that I upgraded from RedHat 8 to Tao instead of a
> completely new install like the box that is giving me problems).
>
> Is there any way to debug this? The maillog is not giving me any lead :
> Jul 20 10:43:21 gw MailScanner[31488]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting

I think I found the culprit, the path setting in virus.scanners.conf was
incorrect.

Would it be possible to modify the line that is sent to the maillog to
show that the virusscanner was not found?

Sorry for the trouble!!




> but no messages about success and / or failure.
>
>
> > > > >Why can't I install the rpms after building them and wouldn't it be nice
> > > > >if MailScanner would report any missing (vital) modules on startup or in
> > > > >the maillog?
> > > >
> > > > It won't even start up if there is much missing, it can't try to run code
> > > > that doesn't exist.
> > >
> > >OK, thanks! I guess that means that the mdoules that refused to install
> > >are already there even though they do not show up with a rpm -qa?
> >
> > Yes.
> > --
> > Julian Field
> > www.MailScanner.info
> > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
> >
> > PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
> >
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