New install, clamav not running?

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : S Joyce [mailto:sjlist at HEIDELBERG.EDU]
>Envoyé : 14 mars, 2004 09:01
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : New install, clamav not running?
>
>
>Hello.  I am very new to MailScanner.  All I can say from my 
>results so far
>is, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
>
>Here's the setup:  Solaris 2.7, MailScanner 4.28.6, SpamAssassin 2.63,
>ClamAV 0.67-1.  All binaries installed in "standard" directories.
>
>The problem:  I don't think MailScanner is ever invoking "clamscan" to
>perform a virus check.  I never see any clamscan processes 
>running, nor do
>I see a "clamav.$$" directory ever appear in /tmp.
>
>I have
>
>Incoming Work Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming   (same 
>partition as
>mqueue and mqueue.in)
>Virus Scanning = yes
>Virus Scanners = clamav
>Incoming Work Group = clamav
>Incoming Work Permissions = 0600
>
>I'm not trying to use the Perl ClamAVModule, just the regular ClamAV.
>
>When I test the wrapper on the command line, it calls clamscan 
>just fine,
>and the temporary directory is indeed created (and then 
>deleted, per that
>script).  That is to say,
>
>/opt/MailScanner/lib/clamav-wrapper  /usr/local  /tmp
>
>
>works, but the MailScanner processes themselves never seem to 
>invoke ClamAV
>to do any scanning.

Have you sent yourself the eicar test virus file?

Ugo

>
>Has anyone else seen this problem?  TIA for any advice you can
>offer.  (BTW, even without Clam running, MailScanner has 
>helped immensely
>simply by virtue of trapping known bad filename extensions.  Thanks!)
>
>SJ
>sjlist at heidelberg.edu
>