ERROR::UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 14 09:15:39 GMT 2008


What is your "Virus Scanners =" setting in MailScanner.conf, what does 
"MailScanner --lint" produce and do you have clamd running ("service 
clamd start" to start it)?

Olivier FRANCHET wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> I installed MailScanner/Postfix/SpamAssassin and I have this error in 
> the maillog :
>
> Mar 14 09:32:54 centos MailScanner[17418]: New Batch: Scanning 1 
> messages, 3051 bytes
> Mar 14 09:32:54 centos MailScanner[17418]: Virus and Content Scanning: 
> Starting
> Mar 14 09:32:54 centos MailScanner[17418]: ClamAVModule::ERROR:: 
> UNKNOWN CLAMD RETURN ./lstat() failed. ERROR :: 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/17418
> Mar 14 09:32:54 centos MailScanner[17418]: Virus Scanning: Clamd found 
> 1 infections
> Mar 14 09:32:54 centos MailScanner[17418]: Virus Scanning: Found 1 
> viruses
>
> Only 1 result from Google (an old thread from this list but no help 
> for me).
>
>
> [root at centos postfix]# MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux centos.xxxx.net 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:01:45 
> EST 2008                                                               
>                i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> This is CentOS release 5 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008008 (5.8.8)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.67.6
>
>
> ANY IDEA ?
>
> Cordialement/Regards,
> Olivier
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> believed to be clean. 

Jules

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