beta 4.59.3 and clamd

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Mon Apr 30 10:32:28 IST 2007


You need to make sure the clamav user can read the files/dirs..

The top level incoming dir can't be read by 'group' clamav.

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Zivago Lee
> Sent: 30 April 2007 08:27
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: beta 4.59.3 and clamd
>
> Hello,
>
> I just tried upgrading to 4.59.3 and I keep getting these errors:
>
> Apr 30 00:24:07 www MailScanner[16967]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> Starting
> Apr 30 00:24:08 www
> MailScanner[16967]: /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/16967/.: lstat()
> failed. ERROR
>
> Any ideas on what that means?  The permissions for these dirs are as
> follows:
>
> drwx------   9 postfix clamav   4096 Apr 30 00:25 incoming
>
> in the incoming dir:
>
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix clamav     4096 Apr 30 00:21 16563
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix clamav     4096 Apr 30 00:20 16576
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix clamav     4096 Apr 30 00:21 16588
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix clamav     4096 Apr 30 00:23 16949
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix clamav     4096 Apr 30 00:23 16957
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix clamav     4096 Apr 30 00:25 16967
> drwxr-x---  2 postfix clamav     4096 Apr 30 00:23 16979
>
> Did I set the permissions incorrectly in the run as user section?
>
> Thanks,
> Zivago
>
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