New install, clamav not running?

S Joyce sjlist at HEIDELBERG.EDU
Sun Mar 14 15:32:20 GMT 2004


At 10:10 AM 3/14/04, you wrote:
>There is a known issue with the clamav wrapper on Solaris, which may be
>your problem (I believe this will be fixed in the next release).  The
>problem is that clamav-wrapper uses 'whoami' to decide if it is being
>run as root (which triggers some actions to avoid problems caused by
>clam dropping its privs), but whoami isn't in the default path on
>Solaris.  Try adding the following lines near the start of the
>clamavwrapper....
>
>PATH=$PATH:/usr/ucb
>export PATH

Thank you so much.  Adding the "forced" PATH inclusion to the wrapper
script makes it work perfectly.  Clamscan is now being run from MailScanner
and working (indeed, with the eicar test virus file, it flagged it right away).

Thanks again for the help.

SJ
sjlist at heidelberg.edu



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