Clamav with MailScanner on Fedora 6

"Luís Fernando C. Talora" talora-listas at talora.com.br
Wed Jan 24 18:28:08 CET 2007


Fellows,

I´ve changed the path under /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanner.conf, but it 
still doesn´t work. I´ll try the clamav+SA packer from mailscanner.info.

Thanks a lot, again!

Regards,

Luis Talora

Glenn Steen escreveu:
> On 24/01/07, "Luís Fernando C. Talora" <talora-listas at talora.com.br> 
> wrote:
>> Don´t think so... I´m not sure, but I think I´ve misconfigured Clamav
>> (in fact, I did nothing on its config files - just left files as they
>> came when I made a "yum install clamav*"). On the IRC Channel, someone
>> told me I should use the Clamav package posted on the MailScanner
>> website. Is that right?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Luis Talora
>>
> 0) Check that what you have in virus.scanner.conf chimes with where
> you have clamav installed. By default, MailScanner will look for it in
> /usr/local/bin, but your RPM might have put it in /usr/bin ... if so,
> amend virus.scanners.conf so that it has only "/usr" in the third
> field for the clamscan AV... _OR_ deinstall  the clamav rpm package
> (and spamassassin) and use Jules Clam+SA easy-install package, which
> will put clamav in the default /usr/local location.
>
> 1) What happens when you run clamscan on a file containing EICAR?
>
> 2) What happens when you run the clamscan wrapper on the same file?
> You need specify a bit more with the wrapper, like:
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-wrapper /usr/local -r --disable-summary
> --stdout /path/to/file
> where the /usr/local is the third field from virus.scanners.conf
> (pointing to where clamav is installed).
>
> Cheers



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