Permissions to use Clamd with Postfix?
Andrew MacLachlan
amaclach at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 8 17:35:19 IST 2007
You can also chmod 755 /var/spool/MailScanner and MailScanner/incoming.
The correct answer is the one that works.
----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Hutchings <paul.hutchings at mira.co.uk>
To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 May, 2007 4:00:46 PM
Subject: RE: Permissions to use Clamd with Postfix?
Ok so two answers two methods. Who's right? :-)
Paul Hutchings
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-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Daniel Maher
Sent: 08 May 2007 15:15
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: RE: Permissions to use Clamd with Postfix?
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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Paul Hutchings
Sent: May 8, 2007 10:05 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Permissions to use Clamd with Postfix?
As subject really, I'm a little confused. I'm running MailScanner with Postfix and would like to be able to use ClamD simply as I presume it's going to be faster than Clamscan.
My "run as" user/group is Postfix. The permissions on /var/incoming/mail are postfix.postfix.
What do I need to do to make MailScanner work with Clamd as at the moment when I try it I simply get an "/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/14276/.: lstat() failed. ERROR" or similar.
Clamd is likely running as user "clamav", which doesn't have read permissions for the incoming directory.
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The solution is twofold:
1. Change your "run as" options to use to "postfix.clamav"
2. Change the ownership of incoming to postfix.clamav, and give it group read perms
I had to setgid the incoming directory in order to make sure that the runtime dirs under incoming actually had their ownership set properly, but ymmv.
Cheers!
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