Error with virus scanning

[Drew Marshall]

On Mon, June 25, 2007 13:36, Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> I'd check the outgoing queue is OK.
>
> Stop MailScanner then run "MailScanner -debug" and it'll give you more
> clues.
>
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> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Glenn Steen
>> Sent: 25 June 2007 13:27
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Error with virus scanning
>>
>> On 25/06/07, Sam Bailey <cyprix at cyprix.com.au> wrote:
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > Installed MailScanner for the first time via Mandriva rpm, and got
> most
>> > things working except for this message in my logs:
>> >
>> > MailScanner[9019]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
>> > MailScanner[9019]: ERROR: Unable to open file or directory
>> > MailScanner[9019]: Requeue: XXXXXXXXXXXX.XXXXX to XXXXXXXXXXXX
>> >
>> > I'm using MailScanner 4.55.9 with SpamAssassin module and ClamAV
> 0.90
>> under Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Spring.
>> >
>> > I thought that maybe the permissions weren't right somewhere but I
> was
>> unable to work out what I needed to change.

I would have said you are running Clamd as one of your AV engines. Check
the ClamAV unpack directories have the right permissions as described in
MailScanner.conf Don't forget that MailScanner will be running as
postfix:postfix and will need to have group access to the clam
directories.

Drew


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