MailScanner cant detect virus

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 15:52:06 IST 2005


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On 6/22/05, Meshbah Uddin Ahmed <meshbahuddin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> yes, u right, my scanner doesnt detect virus. pls
> advice me what can i do. here is my settings-
> 
> in my virus.scanners.conf  file, it is-
> clamav  /etc/MailScanner/wrapper/clamav-wrapper  /usr
> 
> I have install all pkg like this
> apt-get install postfix mailscanner spamassassin
> 
> but download clamav manually. then install it.
> my freshclam.conf is in- /usr/local/etc/
> and *.cvd files are in- /var/lib/clamav/
> 
> in MailScanner.conf file-
> Virus Scanning = yes
> Virus Scanner = clamav
(snip)
Could you show the output from

ls /etc/MailScanner/wrapper
(just to verify that this is actually correct... Seems a bit odd:)

ls -l /usr/bin/clamscan /usr/local/bin/clamscan
(just to determine if the "final /usr" in virus.scanners.conf is correct).

I'm guessing that the deb package might have things set a bit odd (at
least compared to the usual rpm or tarball install of MailScanner)...
And that the install of clamav from source that is "sort off biting
you":-).
If you have clamscan in /usr/local/bin, as would be normal with a
straight build from source, then you'd probably only need change /usr
to /usr/local in the third column for clamav (in virus.scanners.conf,
of course:).

HtH
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